Amber Fraley
2 min readJul 15, 2022

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That's fair. Because I do think conservatives are pieces of shit.

But back to your "centrist" notions:

"If you could kindly just curl up in a corner or shrivel up and die, that would be great." Is not a progressive sentiment and for you to state that it is makes you sound like a conservative. The progressive sentiment is "We'd like everyone treated the same under the law." Many white men in this country choose to hear "If you could kindly just curl up in a corner or shrivel up and die, that would be great," even though that's not what the vast majority of progressives are saying. Like not even close.

"Capitalism is evil and meritocricy is invalid." Again, when you say things like that, you sound like a conservative. Progressives want capitalism tweaked to be less evil and we don't want money to be a legal shield for white collar criminals. No progressive thinks "meritocricy is invalid"--quite the opposite. We're tired of seeing unqualified white men be rewarded for other peoples' work.

I'm not going to go through all of these individually again, but I will say that similar to most conservative men you seem to be confusing rhetoric from progressive activists with your rights being infringed. Just because activists are shaming you on social media for using the wrong pronoun is nowhere NEAR the same injustice as using the law to literally take bodily autonomy from women. It's just not. Like I'm sorry you don't like what the kids are saying these days, but they're not hurting your rights. At all. And if you want "progressives" to stop the kids from hurting your feelings, well, I don't know what to tell you.

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Amber Fraley
Amber Fraley

Written by Amber Fraley

Writing about abortion rights, mental illness, trauma, narcissistic abuse & survival, politics. Journalist, novelist, wife, mom, Kansan, repro rights activist.

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