I mean no one is owed a job...
I agree, but everyone is owed the right to be treated justly.
I see this sentiment a lot as a reason not to pursue progressive policies WRT everything from school curricula, affirmative action, diversity training, trans rights etc etc. I don't deny that a lot of the lunacy we've been seeing on the right is backlash to the perceived excesses of the left, but I reject the idea that there's a certain degree of social progressivism that the right would tolerate. It doesn't really matter how small or anodyne progressive measures are; the right wing disinformation machine will whip it into an existential threat no matter what. Remember: at the end of the day progressives want a just society; the revanchist right fundamentally does not.
I agree with this. The danger is in losing the moderates and left-of-center types. They can be red-pilled, and many already have. Moderates can get on board with demonizing racists and sexists, it's different when whites and men as a group get demonized, it can get people's backs up so they feel they need to defend themselves, same when progressives go over the line to where it tramples on other's rights.
The danger is losing people like Bill Maher or Kimmy to the right. Elections are won by the moderate swing-voters, the
**** left and right folks will never change their minds. US voters elected Bill Clinton, then George Bush, then Obama, then Trump. Canadians elected Chretien, then Harper, then Trudeau. The moderates determine everything. Kimmy isn't a conservative, but she feels she has no choice but to defend her own rights when she feels the rights of others are intruding on them. I'm also not a conservative btw, I voted for Trudeau in 2015, I would have voted for Obama and Bernie Sanders, i'm probably moderate to right-of-center socially on lots of things but i'm left-of-center economically.
But we live in world where people are held down unfairly and always will, at least as long as capitalism exists.
I agree, and conflict usually happens when it occurs. Reduce people being treated unfairly, reduce social conflict. The only problem to resolve is when the rights of 2 or more groups conflict.