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I don't remember conservative mobs shutting down speakers at college campuses, or attacking the political rallies of people they don't like.
by gozur88 10y ago
I don't remember conservative mobs shutting down speakers at college campuses, or attacking the political rallies of people they don't like.
- bilbo0s 10y agoHeh... I don't remember any liberals gunning down little old ladies at bible studies for being black either. That doesn't make liberals any more "tolerant" of opposing views or different people than conservatives are. Just as your example doesn't make conservatives any more "tolerant" than liberals are. The reality is... there are elements in both camps that are REALLY dangerous if you're challenging their preconceptions.
- gozur88 10y agoYou're comparing a single guy off his nut and mobs of organized students egged on by their professors. Can you really not see the difference?
- bilbo0s 10y agoThe question that follows is very kindly intended. My only purpose is to get you to think a bit more deeply about what partisan thinking does to a person's ability to reason. Have you ever considered that, perhaps, you don't see partisan thinking as having anything to do with the supremacist because you're invested in that school of thought? We tend to rationalize that which we are invested in... and I think you may be doing a little rationalizing. Think of it this way... when a young man goes out and targets police officers to murder them, as Herschel Jones did in Ohio... is that an indictment of liberal rhetoric about police? Or is it a "...single guy off his nut...", nothing at all to do with anti-police rhetoric?
- convolvatron 10y agocompared to a conservative police force in a conservative town cracking my skull open because i look queer. i think the notion of partisan offense and defense is quite well served