Too much stereotyping

[bill718]

As an Independent, I'm mildly dismayed (I say mildly because I read so much of it, I've become numb to it!) at the mindless stereotyping that goes on here. i.e.

Stereotype: Conservatives are uneducated, racist, sexist goons who hate our environment, hate the poor, hate our allies, and hate everyone why doesn't think just like them. Reality: Many Conservatives are very well educated, care deeply about our environment, are serious about eliminating poverty, sincerely want good relations with our allies, and don't have a racist or sexist thought in them.

Stereotype: Liberals are lazy, pot smoking Socialists, who hate their country, hate white people, want open borders, and only want "free stuff" Reality: Millions of Liberals have served voluntarily in active-duty military ranks, work long hours running business's, serve as border guards, work as everything from financial analysis to construction workers, and don't have a racist or sexist thought in them.

Conservatives and Liberals - Despite your negative attitude towards each other, the reality is you folks are not that different at all, so, please tone down the stereotyping. I know it's fun to do from behind your keyboard knowing you'll face no retribution but stereotyping people who don't agree with you is just another form of lying to yourself.

 

[Crepitus]

Reality: Many Conservatives are very well educated, care deeply about our environment, are serious about eliminating poverty, sincerely want good relations with our allies, and don't have a racist or sexist thought in them.

Show me one here.

 

[Etymology gaslight]

As an Independent, I'm mildly dismayed (I say mildly because I read so much of it, I've become numb to it!) at the mindless stereotyping that goes on here. i.e.

Stereotype: Conservatives are uneducated, racist, sexist goons who hate our environment, hate the poor, hate our allies, and hate everyone why doesn't think just like them. Reality: Many Conservatives are very well educated, care deeply about our environment, are serious about eliminating poverty, sincerely want good relations with our allies, and don't have a racist or sexist thought in them.

Stereotype: Liberals are lazy, pot smoking Socialists, who hate their country, hate white people, want open borders, and only want "free stuff" Reality: Millions of Liberals have served voluntarily in active-duty military ranks, work long hours running business's, serve as border guards, work as everything from financial analysis to construction workers, and don't have a racist or sexist thought in them.

Conservatives and Liberals - Despite your negative attitude towards each other, the reality is you folks are not that different at all, so, please tone down the stereotyping. I know it's fun to do from behind your keyboard knowing you'll face no retribution but stereotyping people who don't agree with you is just another form of lying to yourself.

We just need a third party to brutalize,
Then everything will be fine.

 

[frigidweirdo]

As an Independent, I'm mildly dismayed (I say mildly because I read so much of it, I've become numb to it!) at the mindless stereotyping that goes on here. i.e.

Stereotype: Conservatives are uneducated, racist, sexist goons who hate our environment, hate the poor, hate our allies, and hate everyone why doesn't think just like them. Reality: Many Conservatives are very well educated, care deeply about our environment, are serious about eliminating poverty, sincerely want good relations with our allies, and don't have a racist or sexist thought in them.

Stereotype: Liberals are lazy, pot smoking Socialists, who hate their country, hate white people, want open borders, and only want "free stuff" Reality: Millions of Liberals have served voluntarily in active-duty military ranks, work long hours running business's, serve as border guards, work as everything from financial analysis to construction workers, and don't have a racist or sexist thought in them.

Conservatives and Liberals - Despite your negative attitude towards each other, the reality is you folks are not that different at all, so, please tone down the stereotyping. I know it's fun to do from behind your keyboard knowing you'll face no retribution but stereotyping people who don't agree with you is just another form of lying to yourself.

If that's all your dismayed at, then you're lucky.

I'm dismayed at the complete lack of understand about politics that goes on here.

You have people saying "Oh, this person's a Communist" and you ask "What's a Communist?" and the responses are usually anything but an attempt at explaining what a Communist is, and just an obvious example of how little they know about Communism.

Same with Proportional Representation. This is something I think is ESSENTIAL for the US to be able to stop the rot in society in general and politics at large. All of the great empires of the world have fallen, and a lot of the times it's because they fail to adapt to the changing world, and greed.. And the US has both of these.

Tell people the US should have PR and the responses range from "we've already got that" to "we're not European" to "uggh, uggh, my knuckles scrape the floor"

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

As an Independent, I'm mildly dismayed (I say mildly because I read so much of it, I've become numb to it!) at the mindless stereotyping that goes on here. i.e.

Stereotype: Conservatives are uneducated, racist, sexist goons who hate our environment, hate the poor, hate our allies, and hate everyone why doesn't think just like them. Reality: Many Conservatives are very well educated, care deeply about our environment, are serious about eliminating poverty, sincerely want good relations with our allies, and don't have a racist or sexist thought in them.

Stereotype: Liberals are lazy, pot smoking Socialists, who hate their country, hate white people, want open borders, and only want "free stuff" Reality: Millions of Liberals have served voluntarily in active-duty military ranks, work long hours running business's, serve as border guards, work as everything from financial analysis to construction workers, and don't have a racist or sexist thought in them.

Conservatives and Liberals - Despite your negative attitude towards each other, the reality is you folks are not that different at all, so, please tone down the stereotyping. I know it's fun to do from behind your keyboard knowing you'll face no retribution but stereotyping people who don't agree with you is just another form of lying to yourself.

First, I like the Al Stewart line in your siggie...Nostradamus, right?

Demonization of one's enemies....is almost inevitable.
Especially when we are all so alike, culturally.

Most Conservatives I know, in the RW..smoke pot....LOL!

Now to get real--very few humans go through life without a racist or sexist thought--as long as they remain thoughts..no harm, no foul--in my book.

Nuance is not really your friend...here on USMB.

For example--one can care deeply about the environment and totally reject anthropomorphic warming of the earth--but no one on the Left will accept that that can be valid.

Many on the Right are serious about eliminating poverty--by ascribing to the 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' theory.
That such does not always work is sort of ignored, or explained by some toss-off remark, that amounts to a pejorative.


Meanwhile, some on the Left are great people, kind and caring..yet they wish to spend other people's money..a lot of it---in pursuit of some ideological point--that can never, really, be resolved, in the RW.

Those on the Right see racism as a club invented to beat them with..while those self-same people will comb the internet every day..for stories that show minorities in a poor light.
Never dreaming that that is, of course, racist.

Most of the hot-button issues in our culture wars are crafted before-time, with malice aforethought..by those who wish to rule us.
You note that there never really is a solution....from either side--that is not totally unacceptable to half of America.

Stereotyping and demonization are how we are divided...and conquered.

Until the majority utterly rejects the ideological puritans of both sides---and makes it stick, we are screwed~

 

[IM2]

There aren't many conservatives in this forum. Most of them are right-wing extremists. The OP needs to understand the difference. Real conservatives are not Trump supporters.

 

[IM2]

We just need a third party to brutalize,
Then everything will be fine.

There are more than 2 parties. The other ones don't seem to get enough support to get on ballots.

 

[mudwhistle]

If that's all your dismayed at, then you're lucky.

I'm dismayed at the complete lack of understand about politics that goes on here.

You have people saying "Oh, this person's a Communist" and you ask "What's a Communist?" and the responses are usually anything but an attempt at explaining what a Communist is, and just an obvious example of how little they know about Communism.

Same with Proportional Representation. This is something I think is ESSENTIAL for the US to be able to stop the rot in society in general and politics at large. All of the great empires of the world have fallen, and a lot of the times it's because they fail to adapt to the changing world, and greed.. And the US has both of these.

Tell people the US should have PR and the responses range from "we've already got that" to "we're not European" to "uggh, uggh, my knuckles scrape the floor"

Most kids come out of H.S. these days never knowing what a communist is.

And the usual defense that communists use is that we don't know what communism is in the first place.

Sorry, but that's horse shit.

 

[Mack The Finger]

There aren't many conservatives in this forum. Most of them are right-wing extremists. The OP needs to understand the difference. Real conservatives are not Trump supporters.

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WTF are you smoking dude ?

 

[0311]

As an Independent, I'm mildly dismayed (I say mildly because I read so much of it, I've become numb to it!) at the mindless stereotyping that goes on here. i.e.

Stereotype: Conservatives are uneducated, racist, sexist goons who hate our environment, hate the poor, hate our allies, and hate everyone why doesn't think just like them. Reality: Many Conservatives are very well educated, care deeply about our environment, are serious about eliminating poverty, sincerely want good relations with our allies, and don't have a racist or sexist thought in them.

Stereotype: Liberals are lazy, pot smoking Socialists, who hate their country, hate white people, want open borders, and only want "free stuff" Reality: Millions of Liberals have served voluntarily in active-duty military ranks, work long hours running business's, serve as border guards, work as everything from financial analysis to construction workers, and don't have a racist or sexist thought in them.

Conservatives and Liberals - Despite your negative attitude towards each other, the reality is you folks are not that different at all, so, please tone down the stereotyping. I know it's fun to do from behind your keyboard knowing you'll face no retribution but stereotyping people who don't agree with you is just another form of lying to yourself.

Your stereo typing

 

[0311]

You stereo type while writing about it. Typical MAGA MAGGOT shit. That is what being knuckle dragging neanderthal supporters of Felon47 do.

 

[BluesLegend]

Democrats and liberals are pure SCUM, no stereotype is required. Lying lowlife rat bastards. You have to watch your back around them because they are backstabbers of the first order.

 

[Harry Dresden]

There aren't many conservatives in this forum. Most of them are right-wing extremists. The OP needs to understand the difference. Real conservatives are not Trump supporters.

who are you trying to kid?....they are all the same to your sour ass....

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

As an Independent, I'm mildly dismayed (I say mildly because I read so much of it, I've become numb to it!) at the mindless stereotyping that goes on here. i.e.

Stereotype: Conservatives are uneducated, racist, sexist goons who hate our environment, hate the poor, hate our allies, and hate everyone why doesn't think just like them. Reality: Many Conservatives are very well educated, care deeply about our environment, are serious about eliminating poverty, sincerely want good relations with our allies, and don't have a racist or sexist thought in them.

Stereotype: Liberals are lazy, pot smoking Socialists, who hate their country, hate white people, want open borders, and only want "free stuff" Reality: Millions of Liberals have served voluntarily in active-duty military ranks, work long hours running business's, serve as border guards, work as everything from financial analysis to construction workers, and don't have a racist or sexist thought in them.

Conservatives and Liberals - Despite your negative attitude towards each other, the reality is you folks are not that different at all, so, please tone down the stereotyping. I know it's fun to do from behind your keyboard knowing you'll face no retribution but stereotyping people who don't agree with you is just another form of lying to yourself.

I highlighted a great misconception on your part. I am still in contact with a lot of my Navy shipmates, and I can tell you there is not a single one that would ever vote for a Democrat.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

As an Independent, I'm mildly dismayed (I say mildly because I read so much of it, I've become numb to it!) at the mindless stereotyping that goes on here. i.e.

Stereotype: Conservatives are uneducated, racist, sexist goons who hate our environment, hate the poor, hate our allies, and hate everyone why doesn't think just like them. Reality: Many Conservatives are very well educated, care deeply about our environment, are serious about eliminating poverty, sincerely want good relations with our allies, and don't have a racist or sexist thought in them.

Stereotype: Liberals are lazy, pot smoking Socialists, who hate their country, hate white people, want open borders, and only want "free stuff" Reality: Millions of Liberals have served voluntarily in active-duty military ranks, work long hours running business's, serve as border guards, work as everything from financial analysis to construction workers, and don't have a racist or sexist thought in them.

Conservatives and Liberals - Despite your negative attitude towards each other, the reality is you folks are not that different at all, so, please tone down the stereotyping. I know it's fun to do from behind your keyboard knowing you'll face no retribution but stereotyping people who don't agree with you is just another form of lying to yourself.

The sad truth about stereotypes is the are in fact mostly true!

 

[Unkotare]

Show me one here.

 

[The Duke]

Show me one here.

You'll never see it with your head up your ass.

He could be showing you all kinds of stuff, but you're looking at colon walls.

 

[The Duke]

You stereo type while writing about it. Typical MAGA MAGGOT shit. That is what being knuckle dragging neanderthal supporters of Felon47 do.

Democrats and liberals are pure SCUM, no stereotype is required. Lying lowlife rat bastards. You have to watch your back around them because they are backstabbers of the first order.

Idk about all that, but that Senate is not doing their jobs in America. They are the most corrupt branch and they are dicking around and really being traitors right now. They voted themselves The Lords of The United States in the late 1980s and
the hubris and privilege is off the charts with these coddled, entitled, pompous asses!

 

[hjmick]

There aren't many conservatives in this forum. Most of them are right-wing extremists. The OP needs to understand the difference. Real conservatives are not Trump supporters.

THANK YOU!

 

[pknopp]

First, I like the Al Stewart line in your siggie...Nostradamus, right?

Demonization of one's enemies....is almost inevitable.
Especially when we are all so alike, culturally.

Most Conservatives I know, in the RW..smoke pot....LOL!

Now to get real--very few humans go through life without a racist or sexist thought--as long as they remain thoughts..no harm, no foul--in my book.

Nuance is not really your friend...here on USMB.

For example--one can care deeply about the environment and totally reject anthropomorphic warming of the earth--but no one on the Left will accept that that can be valid.

Many on the Right are serious about eliminating poverty--by ascribing to the 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' theory.
That such does not always work is sort of ignored, or explained by some toss-off remark, that amounts to a pejorative.


Meanwhile, some on the Left are great people, kind and caring..yet they wish to spend other people's money..a lot of it---in pursuit of some ideological point--that can never, really, be resolved, in the RW.

Those on the Right see racism as a club invented to beat them with..while those self-same people will comb the internet every day..for stories that show minorities in a poor light.
Never dreaming that that is, of course, racist.

Most of the hot-button issues in our culture wars are crafted before-time, with malice aforethought..by those who wish to rule us.
You note that there never really is a solution....from either side--that is not totally unacceptable to half of America.

Stereotyping and demonization are how we are divided...and conquered.

Until the majority utterly rejects the ideological puritans of both sides---and makes it stick, we are screwed~

In the House's new budget bill they are spending other people's money and a lot of it.

Sadly most people hold very few principled positions outside of party affiliation.