Saturday, May 16, 2009

The "Personal Responsibility" Canard

"Personal responsibility" is obviously a red herring designed to abrogate actual responsibility. There's nothing inadequate with the term responsibility. The only reason people modify it by adding "personal" is to abrogate responsibility, since responsibility is inherently social.

This is primarily a tactic used by rightwingers in waging class warfare against the poor; it's another way to blame the victim.

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