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99% of conservatives make the other 1% look bad.
by otterley 5y ago
99% of conservatives make the other 1% look bad.
- happytoexplain 5y agoThere is a tendency in groups where, even if the unreasonable representatives become a majority, the reasonable representatives still kind of expect the rest of the world to somehow omit them from criticisms of the unreasonable portion's ideologies (the inverse problem that complements the problem the parent describes). However, casually drawing a bright line between those two groups and assigning a hard ratio to each is essentially an exercise in hostility, especially apparent by reaching for the magic number, "99%".
- rhino369 5y agoYou missed the point entirely. She's not a conservative at all. You are engaging in the most absurd guilt by association one can imagine. You agree with X about Y. X is bad. Therefore you are as bad as X. That's just a bad argument. "Conservatism" in modern US political parlance is just a bundle of beliefs. The two party system makes a false dichotomy, but that is not how the average person operates.