Kirsten Powers is a beautiful young lady, and a strong and capable spokesman for the Leftist perspective...
....yet, she is not one of the mindless drones who claim that the other side is stupid, or evil.
In her new book, "The Silencing: How The Left Is Killing Free Speech," she makes these remarks:
1. She describes her parents: 'The allegiance to the Democratic Party had been cemented generations before, when family members reached the shores of America. I was constantly reminded that the Democratic Party stood up for working people, for families like ours, and those that came later, and just from Ireland.
2. Despite this background, I can't remember anyone ever suggesting that conservative views were illegitimate and unworthy of debate.
3. I had been happily cocooned for much of my twenties as I worked as a political appointee in the Clinton administration. The isolation grew when I moved to New York....where bumping into a conservative was less likely than spotting a unicorn. That unfamiliarity ultimately bred contempt.
4. Two experiences unexpectedly put me in a regular relationship with conservatives: working as a contributor at Fox News and a later in life conversion to Christianity. The more I got to know actual conservative and religious people, the harder it was to justify the stereotypes......
5. I'm now embarrassed that I ever thought such a thing, let alone said it aloud. Such a prejudiced view was only able to take root because of the lack of ideological, political, and religious diversity in my world."
Kirsten Powers, "The Silencing: How The Left Is Killing Free Speech,"
a. The Left survives on demonization of the Right…rather than debating ideas: they teach their drones that the Right is not wrong, but evil…
b. Those with the highest level of education have the least exposure to people with conflicting points of view
c. Given the choice between having all the gun laws you want…vs. all the religious folks I want…which would produce a better nation?
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Now to prove that what Ms. Powers says about the lack of diversity applies to so many more Liberals than merely herself...
6. 53% of the faculty on college campuses had 'cool' and/or negative feelings toward evangelicals. [http://www.jewishresearch.org/PDFs2/FacultyReligion07.pdf]
Think this sort of bigotry would be allowed if it targeted blacks or gays?
And, how, exactly, does this presage the treatment of Christian students on secular campuses?
7. 82% of Liberal social psychologists surveyed said they would be prejudiced against a conservative applicant. [https://journals.cambridge.org/images/fileUpload/documents/Duarte-Haidt_BBS-D-14-00108_preprint.pdf]
"...an alarming level of intolerance emanates from the left side of the political spectrum toward people who express views that don't hew to the 'settled' liberal worldview."
Powers, Op. Cit.
Hear the echoes of earlier totalitarian regimes of the last century?
....yet, she is not one of the mindless drones who claim that the other side is stupid, or evil.
In her new book, "The Silencing: How The Left Is Killing Free Speech," she makes these remarks:
1. She describes her parents: 'The allegiance to the Democratic Party had been cemented generations before, when family members reached the shores of America. I was constantly reminded that the Democratic Party stood up for working people, for families like ours, and those that came later, and just from Ireland.
2. Despite this background, I can't remember anyone ever suggesting that conservative views were illegitimate and unworthy of debate.
3. I had been happily cocooned for much of my twenties as I worked as a political appointee in the Clinton administration. The isolation grew when I moved to New York....where bumping into a conservative was less likely than spotting a unicorn. That unfamiliarity ultimately bred contempt.
4. Two experiences unexpectedly put me in a regular relationship with conservatives: working as a contributor at Fox News and a later in life conversion to Christianity. The more I got to know actual conservative and religious people, the harder it was to justify the stereotypes......
5. I'm now embarrassed that I ever thought such a thing, let alone said it aloud. Such a prejudiced view was only able to take root because of the lack of ideological, political, and religious diversity in my world."
Kirsten Powers, "The Silencing: How The Left Is Killing Free Speech,"
a. The Left survives on demonization of the Right…rather than debating ideas: they teach their drones that the Right is not wrong, but evil…
b. Those with the highest level of education have the least exposure to people with conflicting points of view
c. Given the choice between having all the gun laws you want…vs. all the religious folks I want…which would produce a better nation?
Random Truths US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum
Now to prove that what Ms. Powers says about the lack of diversity applies to so many more Liberals than merely herself...
6. 53% of the faculty on college campuses had 'cool' and/or negative feelings toward evangelicals. [http://www.jewishresearch.org/PDFs2/FacultyReligion07.pdf]
Think this sort of bigotry would be allowed if it targeted blacks or gays?
And, how, exactly, does this presage the treatment of Christian students on secular campuses?
7. 82% of Liberal social psychologists surveyed said they would be prejudiced against a conservative applicant. [https://journals.cambridge.org/images/fileUpload/documents/Duarte-Haidt_BBS-D-14-00108_preprint.pdf]
"...an alarming level of intolerance emanates from the left side of the political spectrum toward people who express views that don't hew to the 'settled' liberal worldview."
Powers, Op. Cit.
Hear the echoes of earlier totalitarian regimes of the last century?
