The Tiresome Demand to Coddle Republicans

[Wyatt earp]

I'm surprised the left hasn't worked to outlaw "booing". Aren't they afraid someone might get their feelings hurt, and it may trigger anxiety ?

Oxford bans clapping to avoid upsetting students



https://nypost.com/2019/10/25/oxford-bans-clapping-to-avoid-upsetting-students/

See??? The rightwing cannot tell a truth. EVERYTHING is a lie.

this article is about helping people with disorders from being overwhelmed or physically in pain. And you posting it falsely is EXACTLY what the article is talking about.

No the article is about how gay and insane the left has become..you guys dont give a damn about deaf people walking with your electric cars..

If they’re deaf, they don’t hear engines either.

you’re not smart.

Vibration, you idiot.


.

Like I said...

Said what?

Your stupid..





Well I agree

 

[impuretrash]

Getting along is overrated.

 

[Dana7360]

See??? The rightwing cannot tell a truth. EVERYTHING is a lie.

this article is about helping people with disorders from being overwhelmed or physically in pain. And you posting it falsely is EXACTLY what the article is talking about.

No the article is about how gay and insane the left has become..you guys dont give a damn about deaf people walking with your electric cars..

If they’re deaf, they don’t hear engines either.

you’re not smart.

Vibration, you idiot.


.

Like I said...

Said what?

Your stupid..





Well I agree

If you're going to call someone stupid it's an excellent ideal for you to know the meaning, spelling and difference between the words YOUR and YOU'RE.

All properly educated and intelligent people see that Synthoholic isn't the stupid one in your conversation.

 

[airplanemechanic]

Hilarious, coming from leftwing SJWs who cry like petulant children when they aren’t coddled.

He uses an iPeed. Probably drives a fucking Prius. And he was just bitching a moaning that his fucking tablet didn't work with this website. Wanting the site owners to coddle to HIM.

Fuck off OP.

 

[Muhammed]

Excellent op-ed that everyone who’s tired of whiny snowflake Republicans should read.


THE TIRESOME DEMAND TO CODDLE REPUBLICANS
The Tiresome Demand to Coddle Republicans | Dame Magazine

On Sunday evening, a stadium full of baseball fans banded together to boo Donald Trump, and chant of “Lock him up!” broke out. For a moment, for an evening, my Twitter timeline was joyous.

But in the morning came the scolds. The people who wanted to be sure to chastise the rest of us, saying that it was things like this that got Trump elected in the first place, and that he will be re-elected if they keep happening. These are the same types who, when Elizabeth Warren suggested, at the LGBTQ town hall, that those who “marriage is between one man and one woman” should just marry one person of the opposite sex, wrote plaintive op-eds reminding us that mocking people with traditional values like that will inevitably result in Trump being re-elected. You know, because there was definitely a chance in hell that anyone who feels that importantly about LGBTQ people not having rights was going to vote for a Democrat before then.

There is an element of absurdity in these pleas, considering the behavior of Trump and his followers. One can hardly imagine anyone writing a scolding op-ed to devoted Trump followers, urging them to stop sharing anti-Semitic frog memes or accusing people of running child sex rings run out of pizza parlors and be more “civil,” never mind one suggesting that Donald Trump’s lack of civility and respect for others could push people further Left. It just wouldn’t happen.

And yet, there is a strain of “wisdom” that if we are just nicer to conservatives, if we always take the high road, if we are civil, if we are more forgiving of bigotry (pardon me, “traditional beliefs”), if we are careful not to be “condescending,” if we don’t advocate for things they really don’t like or vote for people who “frighten them,” they will return the favor and be more moderate themselves. Or they won’t, and then all the nice white suburban Republican ladies will finally decide that the Republican Party has gone “too crazy” and rush into the waiting arms of the first moderate Democrat they see.


Conservatives themselves are often the first to push this sort of wisdom, and are frequently found on the internet claiming they’ve been “forced” to become racist because they were called racist by a liberal for saying a thing they did not think was racist. Like the prototypical abusive husband, they don’t want to hurt us, but we are just not good enough at walking on eggshells around them.

But here’s the problem: We’ve tried that before and it did not work. No one ever got a thank-you note and, if you will notice, John Kerry was never elected to the Oval Office. In fact, I would argue that coddling the Right for decades is what got us here.

For decades, the news media consisted of straight news, mostly centrist talk panels and right-wing talk radio/opinion shows. They would hear Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly talking about how evil and scary feminists and gay people and tree-huggers and peaceniks and immigrants and Black people were, and how they were going to ruin the country. They did not hear from any of those people. There certainly wasn’t a liberal equivalent to Rush Limbaugh, talking about how conservatives were bad people who were going to ruin the country.


Heck, in 2003, Phil Donahue was fired from “liberal” MSNBC, at the behest of “liberal” Chris Matthews, for opposing the invasion of Iraq. A memo that leaked after his firing read that network executives considered him a “difficult public face for NBC in a time of war.” Yes. Phil Donahue—that Phil Donahue—was just “too radical” for MSNBC.

So if you were a conservative Republican in those days, you had every reason to believe that the vitriol only went one way. You hated all those sinners out there, but you didn’t ever hear directly from them, nor did you hear from them what they thought about you. They weren’t real people with thoughts and feelings like you had—they were boogeymen (and women).

One of the things I hear very often on the Right is that, from their perspective, racism was over, sexism was over, and everything was fine, everyone got along, but then all of a sudden, nothing was fine anymore. And it’s not that people weren’t discussing sexism and racism—we were—but they were not around or involved when they did. As far as they knew, from the end of the Rodney King trial to the dawn of the Black Lives Matter movement, there was no police brutality that particularly bothered anyone. After all, it wasn’t on the news.

Then social media happened, and all the conversations the Left had been having all along, in coffee shops, in college, at meetings of activist groups, at parties, in LiveJournals and blogs, were suddenly being had in full view of everyone. And it wasn’t just that people were still mad about bigotry, but that they were so much further along in their analysis and understanding of these issues than they were the last time the Right checked in. They were talking about privileges and microaggressions and intersectionality and ways people could discriminate without even knowing it. All of a sudden, as far as conservatives were concerned, people would think they were jerks if they made fun of a woman for being a “slut” or overweight. Women didn’t want to be catcalled. Trans people wanted to be treated like human beings instead of the shocking twist at the end of a Kinks song.

Liberals, they discovered, were even offended by all the things people on the Right had been saying about them all these years. That when we heard someone say something like, “Gay people cause hurricanes with their gay sex,” we did not think, “Oh, well, they just have traditional values and beliefs. Live and let live!,” and instead thought they were terrible, terrible people.

They found out that the vitriol did, indeed, go both ways. We didn’t like them any more than they liked us. We were not being tolerant of their intolerances. And that was a tough pill to swallow. And they got angry. So angry, supposedly, that they elected Trump in hopes that he would make it “OK” for them to be themselves again without any social repercussions.

More at the link.

^^^

Typical mindless disjointed butthurt screed of faux outrage and moonbattery from a TDS afflicted moron.

 

[Lysistrata]

The OP said it well. The republican party is now an extreme right-wing party. There do not seem to be any moderates remaining in it.

The right-wingers have always operated under the notion that they are entitled to assign every demographic group in society a "place," and all of us should be happy to stay in it, having been told by their John Wayne knock-off guys to "sit and stay" like well-trained dogs should.

The article was dead-on in pointing out that the right-wingers who took over the republican party always respond to finding out that the rest of us are, and have been, pissed off at their doings with expressions of shock and surprise. They never seem to realize that they have incurred our displeasure with their antics over a long period of time. By "our," I mean every group that they have tried to bully into submission, women, blacks, browns, LGBTs, and so many more.

 

[Defiant1]

Excellent op-ed that everyone who’s tired of whiny snowflake Republicans should read.


THE TIRESOME DEMAND TO CODDLE REPUBLICANS
The Tiresome Demand to Coddle Republicans | Dame Magazine

On Sunday evening, a stadium full of baseball fans banded together to boo Donald Trump, and chant of “Lock him up!” broke out. For a moment, for an evening, my Twitter timeline was joyous.

But in the morning came the scolds. The people who wanted to be sure to chastise the rest of us, saying that it was things like this that got Trump elected in the first place, and that he will be re-elected if they keep happening. These are the same types who, when Elizabeth Warren suggested, at the LGBTQ town hall, that those who “marriage is between one man and one woman” should just marry one person of the opposite sex, wrote plaintive op-eds reminding us that mocking people with traditional values like that will inevitably result in Trump being re-elected. You know, because there was definitely a chance in hell that anyone who feels that importantly about LGBTQ people not having rights was going to vote for a Democrat before then.

There is an element of absurdity in these pleas, considering the behavior of Trump and his followers. One can hardly imagine anyone writing a scolding op-ed to devoted Trump followers, urging them to stop sharing anti-Semitic frog memes or accusing people of running child sex rings run out of pizza parlors and be more “civil,” never mind one suggesting that Donald Trump’s lack of civility and respect for others could push people further Left. It just wouldn’t happen.

And yet, there is a strain of “wisdom” that if we are just nicer to conservatives, if we always take the high road, if we are civil, if we are more forgiving of bigotry (pardon me, “traditional beliefs”), if we are careful not to be “condescending,” if we don’t advocate for things they really don’t like or vote for people who “frighten them,” they will return the favor and be more moderate themselves. Or they won’t, and then all the nice white suburban Republican ladies will finally decide that the Republican Party has gone “too crazy” and rush into the waiting arms of the first moderate Democrat they see.


Conservatives themselves are often the first to push this sort of wisdom, and are frequently found on the internet claiming they’ve been “forced” to become racist because they were called racist by a liberal for saying a thing they did not think was racist. Like the prototypical abusive husband, they don’t want to hurt us, but we are just not good enough at walking on eggshells around them.

But here’s the problem: We’ve tried that before and it did not work. No one ever got a thank-you note and, if you will notice, John Kerry was never elected to the Oval Office. In fact, I would argue that coddling the Right for decades is what got us here.

For decades, the news media consisted of straight news, mostly centrist talk panels and right-wing talk radio/opinion shows. They would hear Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly talking about how evil and scary feminists and gay people and tree-huggers and peaceniks and immigrants and Black people were, and how they were going to ruin the country. They did not hear from any of those people. There certainly wasn’t a liberal equivalent to Rush Limbaugh, talking about how conservatives were bad people who were going to ruin the country.


Heck, in 2003, Phil Donahue was fired from “liberal” MSNBC, at the behest of “liberal” Chris Matthews, for opposing the invasion of Iraq. A memo that leaked after his firing read that network executives considered him a “difficult public face for NBC in a time of war.” Yes. Phil Donahue—that Phil Donahue—was just “too radical” for MSNBC.

So if you were a conservative Republican in those days, you had every reason to believe that the vitriol only went one way. You hated all those sinners out there, but you didn’t ever hear directly from them, nor did you hear from them what they thought about you. They weren’t real people with thoughts and feelings like you had—they were boogeymen (and women).

One of the things I hear very often on the Right is that, from their perspective, racism was over, sexism was over, and everything was fine, everyone got along, but then all of a sudden, nothing was fine anymore. And it’s not that people weren’t discussing sexism and racism—we were—but they were not around or involved when they did. As far as they knew, from the end of the Rodney King trial to the dawn of the Black Lives Matter movement, there was no police brutality that particularly bothered anyone. After all, it wasn’t on the news.

Then social media happened, and all the conversations the Left had been having all along, in coffee shops, in college, at meetings of activist groups, at parties, in LiveJournals and blogs, were suddenly being had in full view of everyone. And it wasn’t just that people were still mad about bigotry, but that they were so much further along in their analysis and understanding of these issues than they were the last time the Right checked in. They were talking about privileges and microaggressions and intersectionality and ways people could discriminate without even knowing it. All of a sudden, as far as conservatives were concerned, people would think they were jerks if they made fun of a woman for being a “slut” or overweight. Women didn’t want to be catcalled. Trans people wanted to be treated like human beings instead of the shocking twist at the end of a Kinks song.

Liberals, they discovered, were even offended by all the things people on the Right had been saying about them all these years. That when we heard someone say something like, “Gay people cause hurricanes with their gay sex,” we did not think, “Oh, well, they just have traditional values and beliefs. Live and let live!,” and instead thought they were terrible, terrible people.

They found out that the vitriol did, indeed, go both ways. We didn’t like them any more than they liked us. We were not being tolerant of their intolerances. And that was a tough pill to swallow. And they got angry. So angry, supposedly, that they elected Trump in hopes that he would make it “OK” for them to be themselves again without any social repercussions.

More at the link.

Is Dame Magazine a transexual publication?

I would say yes.

Usually you can tell because the writers don't know how to spell their names...

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Excellent op-ed that everyone who’s tired of whiny snowflake Republicans should read.


THE TIRESOME DEMAND TO CODDLE REPUBLICANS
The Tiresome Demand to Coddle Republicans | Dame Magazine

On Sunday evening, a stadium full of baseball fans banded together to boo Donald Trump, and chant of “Lock him up!” broke out. For a moment, for an evening, my Twitter timeline was joyous.

But in the morning came the scolds. The people who wanted to be sure to chastise the rest of us, saying that it was things like this that got Trump elected in the first place, and that he will be re-elected if they keep happening. These are the same types who, when Elizabeth Warren suggested, at the LGBTQ town hall, that those who “marriage is between one man and one woman” should just marry one person of the opposite sex, wrote plaintive op-eds reminding us that mocking people with traditional values like that will inevitably result in Trump being re-elected. You know, because there was definitely a chance in hell that anyone who feels that importantly about LGBTQ people not having rights was going to vote for a Democrat before then.

There is an element of absurdity in these pleas, considering the behavior of Trump and his followers. One can hardly imagine anyone writing a scolding op-ed to devoted Trump followers, urging them to stop sharing anti-Semitic frog memes or accusing people of running child sex rings run out of pizza parlors and be more “civil,” never mind one suggesting that Donald Trump’s lack of civility and respect for others could push people further Left. It just wouldn’t happen.

And yet, there is a strain of “wisdom” that if we are just nicer to conservatives, if we always take the high road, if we are civil, if we are more forgiving of bigotry (pardon me, “traditional beliefs”), if we are careful not to be “condescending,” if we don’t advocate for things they really don’t like or vote for people who “frighten them,” they will return the favor and be more moderate themselves. Or they won’t, and then all the nice white suburban Republican ladies will finally decide that the Republican Party has gone “too crazy” and rush into the waiting arms of the first moderate Democrat they see.


Conservatives themselves are often the first to push this sort of wisdom, and are frequently found on the internet claiming they’ve been “forced” to become racist because they were called racist by a liberal for saying a thing they did not think was racist. Like the prototypical abusive husband, they don’t want to hurt us, but we are just not good enough at walking on eggshells around them.

But here’s the problem: We’ve tried that before and it did not work. No one ever got a thank-you note and, if you will notice, John Kerry was never elected to the Oval Office. In fact, I would argue that coddling the Right for decades is what got us here.

For decades, the news media consisted of straight news, mostly centrist talk panels and right-wing talk radio/opinion shows. They would hear Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly talking about how evil and scary feminists and gay people and tree-huggers and peaceniks and immigrants and Black people were, and how they were going to ruin the country. They did not hear from any of those people. There certainly wasn’t a liberal equivalent to Rush Limbaugh, talking about how conservatives were bad people who were going to ruin the country.


Heck, in 2003, Phil Donahue was fired from “liberal” MSNBC, at the behest of “liberal” Chris Matthews, for opposing the invasion of Iraq. A memo that leaked after his firing read that network executives considered him a “difficult public face for NBC in a time of war.” Yes. Phil Donahue—that Phil Donahue—was just “too radical” for MSNBC.

So if you were a conservative Republican in those days, you had every reason to believe that the vitriol only went one way. You hated all those sinners out there, but you didn’t ever hear directly from them, nor did you hear from them what they thought about you. They weren’t real people with thoughts and feelings like you had—they were boogeymen (and women).

One of the things I hear very often on the Right is that, from their perspective, racism was over, sexism was over, and everything was fine, everyone got along, but then all of a sudden, nothing was fine anymore. And it’s not that people weren’t discussing sexism and racism—we were—but they were not around or involved when they did. As far as they knew, from the end of the Rodney King trial to the dawn of the Black Lives Matter movement, there was no police brutality that particularly bothered anyone. After all, it wasn’t on the news.

Then social media happened, and all the conversations the Left had been having all along, in coffee shops, in college, at meetings of activist groups, at parties, in LiveJournals and blogs, were suddenly being had in full view of everyone. And it wasn’t just that people were still mad about bigotry, but that they were so much further along in their analysis and understanding of these issues than they were the last time the Right checked in. They were talking about privileges and microaggressions and intersectionality and ways people could discriminate without even knowing it. All of a sudden, as far as conservatives were concerned, people would think they were jerks if they made fun of a woman for being a “slut” or overweight. Women didn’t want to be catcalled. Trans people wanted to be treated like human beings instead of the shocking twist at the end of a Kinks song.

Liberals, they discovered, were even offended by all the things people on the Right had been saying about them all these years. That when we heard someone say something like, “Gay people cause hurricanes with their gay sex,” we did not think, “Oh, well, they just have traditional values and beliefs. Live and let live!,” and instead thought they were terrible, terrible people.

They found out that the vitriol did, indeed, go both ways. We didn’t like them any more than they liked us. We were not being tolerant of their intolerances. And that was a tough pill to swallow. And they got angry. So angry, supposedly, that they elected Trump in hopes that he would make it “OK” for them to be themselves again without any social repercussions.

More at the link.

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[Synthaholic]

I'm surprised the left hasn't worked to outlaw "booing". Aren't they afraid someone might get their feelings hurt, and it may trigger anxiety ?

Oxford bans clapping to avoid upsetting students



https://nypost.com/2019/10/25/oxford-bans-clapping-to-avoid-upsetting-students/

See??? The rightwing cannot tell a truth. EVERYTHING is a lie.

this article is about helping people with disorders from being overwhelmed or physically in pain. And you posting it falsely is EXACTLY what the article is talking about.

No the article is about how gay and insane the left has become..you guys dont give a damn about deaf people walking with your electric cars..

If they’re deaf, they don’t hear engines either.

you’re not smart.

Vibration, you idiot.


.

Uh-huh. Like I said.

 

[Synthaholic]

Hilarious, coming from leftwing SJWs who cry like petulant children when they aren’t coddled.

He uses an iPeed. Probably drives a fucking Prius. And he was just bitching a moaning that his fucking tablet didn't work with this website. Wanting the site owners to coddle to HIM.

Fuck off OP.

^^^ Butthurt because the mods deleted his flaming.

^^^

 

[Synthaholic]

The OP said it well. The republican party is now an extreme right-wing party. There do not seem to be any moderates remaining in it.

The right-wingers have always operated under the notion that they are entitled to assign every demographic group in society a "place," and all of us should be happy to stay in it, having been told by their John Wayne knock-off guys to "sit and stay" like well-trained dogs should.

The article was dead-on in pointing out that the right-wingers who took over the republican party always respond to finding out that the rest of us are, and have been, pissed off at their doings with expressions of shock and surprise. They never seem to realize that they have incurred our displeasure with their antics over a long period of time. By "our," I mean every group that they have tried to bully into submission, women, blacks, browns, LGBTs, and so many more.

Yup. Rush Limbaugh would blithely call women who wanted equal pay 'Feminazis', and that was back in the 1990s. And now they're surprised that people are finally sick of their shit and aren't going to take it any more.

 

[Wyatt earp]

The OP said it well. The republican party is now an extreme right-wing party. There do not seem to be any moderates remaining in it.

The right-wingers have always operated under the notion that they are entitled to assign every demographic group in society a "place," and all of us should be happy to stay in it, having been told by their John Wayne knock-off guys to "sit and stay" like well-trained dogs should.

The article was dead-on in pointing out that the right-wingers who took over the republican party always respond to finding out that the rest of us are, and have been, pissed off at their doings with expressions of shock and surprise. They never seem to realize that they have incurred our displeasure with their antics over a long period of time. By "our," I mean every group that they have tried to bully into submission, women, blacks, browns, LGBTs, and so many more.

Yup. Rush Limbaugh would blithely call women who wanted equal pay 'Feminazis', and that was back in the 1990s. And now they're surprised that people are finally sick of their shit and aren't going to take it any more.

So they throw tantrums ?

 

[Wyatt earp]

No the article is about how gay and insane the left has become..you guys dont give a damn about deaf people walking with your electric cars..

If they’re deaf, they don’t hear engines either.

you’re not smart.

Vibration, you idiot.


.

Like I said...

Said what?

Your stupid..





Well I agree

If you're going to call someone stupid it's an excellent ideal for you to know the meaning, spelling and difference between the words YOUR and YOU'RE.

All properly educated and intelligent people see that Synthoholic isn't the stupid one in your conversation.

Of course he is and your is cohort

 

[DigitalDrifter]

I'm surprised the left hasn't worked to outlaw "booing". Aren't they afraid someone might get their feelings hurt, and it may trigger anxiety ?

Oxford bans clapping to avoid upsetting students



https://nypost.com/2019/10/25/oxford-bans-clapping-to-avoid-upsetting-students/

See??? The rightwing cannot tell a truth. EVERYTHING is a lie.

this article is about helping people with disorders from being overwhelmed or physically in pain. And you posting it falsely is EXACTLY what the article is talking about.

Your tone is offensive to me, and could possibly trigger an anxiety attack.

You must be cancelled at once !

 

[westwall]

Excellent op-ed that everyone who’s tired of whiny snowflake Republicans should read.


THE TIRESOME DEMAND TO CODDLE REPUBLICANS
The Tiresome Demand to Coddle Republicans | Dame Magazine

On Sunday evening, a stadium full of baseball fans banded together to boo Donald Trump, and chant of “Lock him up!” broke out. For a moment, for an evening, my Twitter timeline was joyous.

But in the morning came the scolds. The people who wanted to be sure to chastise the rest of us, saying that it was things like this that got Trump elected in the first place, and that he will be re-elected if they keep happening. These are the same types who, when Elizabeth Warren suggested, at the LGBTQ town hall, that those who “marriage is between one man and one woman” should just marry one person of the opposite sex, wrote plaintive op-eds reminding us that mocking people with traditional values like that will inevitably result in Trump being re-elected. You know, because there was definitely a chance in hell that anyone who feels that importantly about LGBTQ people not having rights was going to vote for a Democrat before then.

There is an element of absurdity in these pleas, considering the behavior of Trump and his followers. One can hardly imagine anyone writing a scolding op-ed to devoted Trump followers, urging them to stop sharing anti-Semitic frog memes or accusing people of running child sex rings run out of pizza parlors and be more “civil,” never mind one suggesting that Donald Trump’s lack of civility and respect for others could push people further Left. It just wouldn’t happen.

And yet, there is a strain of “wisdom” that if we are just nicer to conservatives, if we always take the high road, if we are civil, if we are more forgiving of bigotry (pardon me, “traditional beliefs”), if we are careful not to be “condescending,” if we don’t advocate for things they really don’t like or vote for people who “frighten them,” they will return the favor and be more moderate themselves. Or they won’t, and then all the nice white suburban Republican ladies will finally decide that the Republican Party has gone “too crazy” and rush into the waiting arms of the first moderate Democrat they see.


Conservatives themselves are often the first to push this sort of wisdom, and are frequently found on the internet claiming they’ve been “forced” to become racist because they were called racist by a liberal for saying a thing they did not think was racist. Like the prototypical abusive husband, they don’t want to hurt us, but we are just not good enough at walking on eggshells around them.

But here’s the problem: We’ve tried that before and it did not work. No one ever got a thank-you note and, if you will notice, John Kerry was never elected to the Oval Office. In fact, I would argue that coddling the Right for decades is what got us here.

For decades, the news media consisted of straight news, mostly centrist talk panels and right-wing talk radio/opinion shows. They would hear Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly talking about how evil and scary feminists and gay people and tree-huggers and peaceniks and immigrants and Black people were, and how they were going to ruin the country. They did not hear from any of those people. There certainly wasn’t a liberal equivalent to Rush Limbaugh, talking about how conservatives were bad people who were going to ruin the country.


Heck, in 2003, Phil Donahue was fired from “liberal” MSNBC, at the behest of “liberal” Chris Matthews, for opposing the invasion of Iraq. A memo that leaked after his firing read that network executives considered him a “difficult public face for NBC in a time of war.” Yes. Phil Donahue—that Phil Donahue—was just “too radical” for MSNBC.

So if you were a conservative Republican in those days, you had every reason to believe that the vitriol only went one way. You hated all those sinners out there, but you didn’t ever hear directly from them, nor did you hear from them what they thought about you. They weren’t real people with thoughts and feelings like you had—they were boogeymen (and women).

One of the things I hear very often on the Right is that, from their perspective, racism was over, sexism was over, and everything was fine, everyone got along, but then all of a sudden, nothing was fine anymore. And it’s not that people weren’t discussing sexism and racism—we were—but they were not around or involved when they did. As far as they knew, from the end of the Rodney King trial to the dawn of the Black Lives Matter movement, there was no police brutality that particularly bothered anyone. After all, it wasn’t on the news.

Then social media happened, and all the conversations the Left had been having all along, in coffee shops, in college, at meetings of activist groups, at parties, in LiveJournals and blogs, were suddenly being had in full view of everyone. And it wasn’t just that people were still mad about bigotry, but that they were so much further along in their analysis and understanding of these issues than they were the last time the Right checked in. They were talking about privileges and microaggressions and intersectionality and ways people could discriminate without even knowing it. All of a sudden, as far as conservatives were concerned, people would think they were jerks if they made fun of a woman for being a “slut” or overweight. Women didn’t want to be catcalled. Trans people wanted to be treated like human beings instead of the shocking twist at the end of a Kinks song.

Liberals, they discovered, were even offended by all the things people on the Right had been saying about them all these years. That when we heard someone say something like, “Gay people cause hurricanes with their gay sex,” we did not think, “Oh, well, they just have traditional values and beliefs. Live and let live!,” and instead thought they were terrible, terrible people.

They found out that the vitriol did, indeed, go both ways. We didn’t like them any more than they liked us. We were not being tolerant of their intolerances. And that was a tough pill to swallow. And they got angry. So angry, supposedly, that they elected Trump in hopes that he would make it “OK” for them to be themselves again without any social repercussions.

More at the link.

You know what. You're right. I think it is time for the repubs to start assaulting all of you assholes no matter where you are. Thanks for casting loose the chains of civility. I look forward to seeing the video of you meeting a bad guy on the subway real soon.

 

[Synthaholic]

I'm surprised the left hasn't worked to outlaw "booing". Aren't they afraid someone might get their feelings hurt, and it may trigger anxiety ?

Oxford bans clapping to avoid upsetting students



https://nypost.com/2019/10/25/oxford-bans-clapping-to-avoid-upsetting-students/

See??? The rightwing cannot tell a truth. EVERYTHING is a lie.

this article is about helping people with disorders from being overwhelmed or physically in pain. And you posting it falsely is EXACTLY what the article is talking about.

Your tone is offensive to me, and could possibly trigger an anxiety attack.

You must be cancelled at once !

Admitting to having a disorder is the first step. I'm so proud of you!

 

[theHawk]

The OP said it well. The republican party is now an extreme right-wing party. There do not seem to be any moderates remaining in it.

The right-wingers have always operated under the notion that they are entitled to assign every demographic group in society a "place," and all of us should be happy to stay in it, having been told by their John Wayne knock-off guys to "sit and stay" like well-trained dogs should.

The article was dead-on in pointing out that the right-wingers who took over the republican party always respond to finding out that the rest of us are, and have been, pissed off at their doings with expressions of shock and surprise. They never seem to realize that they have incurred our displeasure with their antics over a long period of time. By "our," I mean every group that they have tried to bully into submission, women, blacks, browns, LGBTs, and so many more.

Yup. Rush Limbaugh would blithely call women who wanted equal pay 'Feminazis', and that was back in the 1990s. And now they're surprised that people are finally sick of their shit and aren't going to take it any more.

The “pay gap” is a proven myth. Feminazis try to compare all women to all men, which is worthless. When men and women are compared at the same job, the gap isn’t there.

It’s funny how you retards actually think that companies would rather hire men just to pay them more, when they supposedly could just hire women to do the same job for less. If that was the case then nearly all men would be unemployed.

 

[dblack]

Excellent op-ed that everyone who’s tired of whiny snowflake Republicans should read.


THE TIRESOME DEMAND TO CODDLE REPUBLICANS
The Tiresome Demand to Coddle Republicans | Dame Magazine

On Sunday evening, a stadium full of baseball fans banded together to boo Donald Trump, and chant of “Lock him up!” broke out. For a moment, for an evening, my Twitter timeline was joyous.

But in the morning came the scolds. The people who wanted to be sure to chastise the rest of us, saying that it was things like this that got Trump elected in the first place, and that he will be re-elected if they keep happening. These are the same types who, when Elizabeth Warren suggested, at the LGBTQ town hall, that those who “marriage is between one man and one woman” should just marry one person of the opposite sex, wrote plaintive op-eds reminding us that mocking people with traditional values like that will inevitably result in Trump being re-elected. You know, because there was definitely a chance in hell that anyone who feels that importantly about LGBTQ people not having rights was going to vote for a Democrat before then.

There is an element of absurdity in these pleas, considering the behavior of Trump and his followers. One can hardly imagine anyone writing a scolding op-ed to devoted Trump followers, urging them to stop sharing anti-Semitic frog memes or accusing people of running child sex rings run out of pizza parlors and be more “civil,” never mind one suggesting that Donald Trump’s lack of civility and respect for others could push people further Left. It just wouldn’t happen.

And yet, there is a strain of “wisdom” that if we are just nicer to conservatives, if we always take the high road, if we are civil, if we are more forgiving of bigotry (pardon me, “traditional beliefs”), if we are careful not to be “condescending,” if we don’t advocate for things they really don’t like or vote for people who “frighten them,” they will return the favor and be more moderate themselves. Or they won’t, and then all the nice white suburban Republican ladies will finally decide that the Republican Party has gone “too crazy” and rush into the waiting arms of the first moderate Democrat they see.


Conservatives themselves are often the first to push this sort of wisdom, and are frequently found on the internet claiming they’ve been “forced” to become racist because they were called racist by a liberal for saying a thing they did not think was racist. Like the prototypical abusive husband, they don’t want to hurt us, but we are just not good enough at walking on eggshells around them.

But here’s the problem: We’ve tried that before and it did not work. No one ever got a thank-you note and, if you will notice, John Kerry was never elected to the Oval Office. In fact, I would argue that coddling the Right for decades is what got us here.

For decades, the news media consisted of straight news, mostly centrist talk panels and right-wing talk radio/opinion shows. They would hear Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly talking about how evil and scary feminists and gay people and tree-huggers and peaceniks and immigrants and Black people were, and how they were going to ruin the country. They did not hear from any of those people. There certainly wasn’t a liberal equivalent to Rush Limbaugh, talking about how conservatives were bad people who were going to ruin the country.


Heck, in 2003, Phil Donahue was fired from “liberal” MSNBC, at the behest of “liberal” Chris Matthews, for opposing the invasion of Iraq. A memo that leaked after his firing read that network executives considered him a “difficult public face for NBC in a time of war.” Yes. Phil Donahue—that Phil Donahue—was just “too radical” for MSNBC.

So if you were a conservative Republican in those days, you had every reason to believe that the vitriol only went one way. You hated all those sinners out there, but you didn’t ever hear directly from them, nor did you hear from them what they thought about you. They weren’t real people with thoughts and feelings like you had—they were boogeymen (and women).

One of the things I hear very often on the Right is that, from their perspective, racism was over, sexism was over, and everything was fine, everyone got along, but then all of a sudden, nothing was fine anymore. And it’s not that people weren’t discussing sexism and racism—we were—but they were not around or involved when they did. As far as they knew, from the end of the Rodney King trial to the dawn of the Black Lives Matter movement, there was no police brutality that particularly bothered anyone. After all, it wasn’t on the news.

Then social media happened, and all the conversations the Left had been having all along, in coffee shops, in college, at meetings of activist groups, at parties, in LiveJournals and blogs, were suddenly being had in full view of everyone. And it wasn’t just that people were still mad about bigotry, but that they were so much further along in their analysis and understanding of these issues than they were the last time the Right checked in. They were talking about privileges and microaggressions and intersectionality and ways people could discriminate without even knowing it. All of a sudden, as far as conservatives were concerned, people would think they were jerks if they made fun of a woman for being a “slut” or overweight. Women didn’t want to be catcalled. Trans people wanted to be treated like human beings instead of the shocking twist at the end of a Kinks song.

Liberals, they discovered, were even offended by all the things people on the Right had been saying about them all these years. That when we heard someone say something like, “Gay people cause hurricanes with their gay sex,” we did not think, “Oh, well, they just have traditional values and beliefs. Live and let live!,” and instead thought they were terrible, terrible people.

They found out that the vitriol did, indeed, go both ways. We didn’t like them any more than they liked us. We were not being tolerant of their intolerances. And that was a tough pill to swallow. And they got angry. So angry, supposedly, that they elected Trump in hopes that he would make it “OK” for them to be themselves again without any social repercussions.

More at the link.

Yeah. You run with that. I'd think it was all pretty funny, but I'm not sure our country will survive another four years of Trump.

 

[justoffal]

Hilarious, coming from leftwing SJWs who cry like petulant children when they aren’t coddled.

Yes.... Let the condescension, misinformation and snot nosed
self absorption continue.

The left never wanted to be polite anyway. Those on the left who are ringing that bell might as well save their breath.

Jo

 

[theHawk]

Hilarious, coming from leftwing SJWs who cry like petulant children when they aren’t coddled.

You’re projecting again.

Your lame, tiresome article fails to even provide an example of a Republican “demanding to be coddled”. It’s just a long diatribe complaining about those darn Republicans who aren’t going along with the Marxist Agenda, and keep their values despite all the attacks on those values by leftwing media.

About the only truthful thing in the article is the part about when social media came along, it exposed what liberals have actually been talking about among themselves all this time. And boy has it, we all now know that “liberals” are really just Marxist, and willing to use fascist methods to force their Agenda and mindless ideology on others. Just look at how they act with their Cancel-Culture when anyone exhibits a contrary opinion to their own. They will use social media to bully, harass, and attack anyone deemed a “bigot”, which is anyone that disagrees with them.