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March 14, 2012
Comment of the Month (So far)
IB Bill responding to Study: Liberals More Likely To Block Online Friends Over Political Disagreements Well, in my own case, I'm a conservative who, during the Komen/Planned Parenthood kerfuffle, unfriended eight people. I found it difficult to tolerate that many people who could go on and on about how great Planned Parenthood is, and who show little respect for the other side. I found their arguments tendentious and manipulative, and I'd just had enough. The only other time I unfriended someone was when this person came out in favor of Hezbollah, Iranian hostility to the U.S., Palestinian terrorism, gay marriage and abortion in a short period of time. I didn't unfriend him earlier because the posts were usually pretty well spaced out. But one day he went off, and I'd had enough. (Unrelated to the unfriending, he took his wife's last name when he got married.) So that's my story. There is a lot of liberal hostility to conservatives and Republicans, and I have to listen to it all the time. Just yesterday a co-worker was going on and on about how the South should be expelled so they can learn to pay their own bills, and so they can create a racist theocracy. I always thought educated people can state, correctly, the other side's point of view. It's childish to think, in most cases, someone disagrees with you because they're bigoted and ignorant.Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 14, 2012 1:01 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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If you're on Facebook, you have a vacant lifestyle plus a diminished mental acuity. You better have 'Life Lock' also. All your data is now available to the web vampires.
Posted by: Peccable at March 14, 2012 1:35 PM
FaceBooking? Is that like Planking or Tebowing or Occupying?
"Go sell crazy someplace else. We're all stocked up here.".
jack nicholson, as good as it gets
Posted by: twolaneflash at March 14, 2012 1:58 PM
I've been known to "unfriend" someone once their political political ideology exceeds a certain setpoint. As in, "You are the bleakest dink, goodbye!"
Posted by: Stephen Borchert at March 14, 2012 3:00 PM
"I always thought educated people can state, correctly, the other side's point of view. It's childish to think, in most cases, someone disagrees with you because they're bigoted and ignorant."
That's a great insight, well worth remembering.
Posted by: CBDenver at March 14, 2012 7:03 PM
Your Liberal friends seldom if ever even hear the Conservative point of view. They are like the media that never listen to Rush, but they believe any press release about Rush from Media Matters. I listen to numerous NPR shows every day. A few times a year a guest, host, or caller even remotely represents what the Conservative point on the topic is. It's not that they state it with derision, but it barely qualifies as a cartoon of the real position.
Since "liberals" see themselves as on the side of the secular angels and their enemies on the side of secular Lucifer, they see no need to know about an opposing view. It would be like asking you to non-judgmentally listen to the case in favor of child abuse.
In 30 years how often does your liberal friend think we want tax cuts so Rich people will like us or so we can make rich people richer. It's important to understand "liberals" avoid knowing your argument. Why do you think they try so hard to keep their opponents out of view in the culture. They are not like us. It's not like fans of different sports teams, it's like inside/outside a cult or religion.
Posted by: Scott M at March 15, 2012 3:35 AM
When a person reaches the stage where what he believes to be true also defines what he is, it is very threatening to be contradicted.
Posted by: james wilson at March 15, 2012 9:01 AM