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I'm saying that many liberals seem to think any criticism is assumed to be coming from conservatives. You realize how presumptuous and lacking in self-awarenes
by gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
I'm saying that many liberals seem to think any criticism is assumed to be coming from conservatives.
You realize how presumptuous and lacking in self-awareness it is to dismiss criticism as essentially "clearly the enemy," instead of actually considering the content of their argument?
Would it really be hard to expand your mind by considering even the hypothetical possibility they're right?
- SamBam 6y agoAgain, you're putting words in my mouth, or you read my original post about Quillette in a tone that I absolutely didn't write it in. Nowhere did I suggest that they are or aren't right about these issues. And when I say Ben Shapiro's beliefs are socially-conservative, that's his language, it's nothing to do with "assuming" it's coming from conservatives, or "the enemy," or anything like that. Again, I'm completely puzzled by your apparent horror that saying that the ideas expressed are "socially conservative." It sounds like you're the one who has a reaction to the "conservative" label, rather than seeing that all sorts of people may have a constellation of liberal beliefs and conservative beliefs.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoNo, it's because, in my opinion, the socially profitable slogans and ideas about identity are not suddenly ways to define people as "socially conservative". I mean, sure, maybe if you're looking for the extreme and literal sense of anyone who doesn't automatically accept any proposal to impose new social norms as conservative, but that's almost meaningless.