Why Liberals Feel Entitled to be Racist
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Unkotare
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By fomenting discord, precluding honest national discourse on important issues, and attempting - through media proxy - to 'run' certain people out of public service. All this while coarsening the culture and worsening relations between people instead of improving them.
Can you be more specific?
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The second link is an example of the Straw Man Fallacy. In the Straw Man Fallacy one does not refute an argument, but a distortion of that argument. What John Hawkins says of all liberals is only true of some, and could probably be said of some conservatives also. I will respond to one of his so called "Uncomfortable Truths About Liberals.
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4) Most liberals don't care if the policies they advocate work or not.This may seem like an alien concept to a lot of people, but liberals don't push policies based on whether they improve people's lives or not. To the contrary, liberals support policies that make them feel good about themselves or alternately, help cement liberals in power. This is why liberals don't care whether tax revenues go up after a tax cut, whether high taxes on the rich kill jobs, or how high your gas prices go because they don't want to drill. To liberals, a policy that kills millions but makes them feel good about themselves is a win, not a loss. See the Left's cut- off of military aid to South Vietnam for one example of that and their opposition to the use of DDT, which is needlessly killing 1.5 million people a year in Africa. Conservatives would be happy to reverse that ban, but it makes liberals falsely feel like they're good environmentalists to keep it in place; so all those poor people in Africa have to die for no reason other than to prop up the fragile self esteem of pampered left-wingers here in the United States.
5 Uncomfortable Truths About Liberals - John Hawkins - Page full
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Republicans do not care that tax cuts - especially for the rich - do not have the benefits they claim. During the 1980 campaign Ronald Reagan said he could cut taxes, raise defense spending, and balance the budget by 1983 without cutting popular middle class entitlements. Obviously, he could not.
From the end of the Second World War the national debt as a percentage of gross domestic product declined until Reagan's tax cuts. The debt problem, which Republicans complain about, only became a problem with the failure of supply side economics, which George H.W. Bush aptly called "Voodoo Economics."
While tax revenue has sometimes increased slightly after tax cuts, it has usually increased more when taxes were not cut, and still more when they were raised.
High taxes on the rich have not killed jobs. When the top tax rate was 94% the unemployment rate was 1.2%. Taxes have generally been higher under Democratic presidents. Jobs created per year have nearly always been higher under Democrat presidents.
The War in Vietnam was immoral, unnecessary, and against American interests. DDT does not break down in the environment. Insects build an immunity to it. These are issues that merit their own threads.
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Racism is essentially a subset of bigotry, and the PC Police certainly are bigoted.
Theirs is more of a de facto racism, one that demands that people are treated separately and differently based simply on skin color.
Worse, political advantage, punishment and intimidation are clearly more important to them than actually improving race relations.
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Theirs is more of a de facto racism, one that demands that people are treated separately and differently based simply on skin color.
Worse, political advantage, punishment and intimidation are clearly more important to them than actually improving race relations.
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C_Clayton_Jones
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"Why Liberals Feel Entitled to be Racist"
This fails as a straw man fallacy.
The OP as contrived a lie in an effort to misrepresent his opponents' position, that 'liberals' feel 'entitled' to be racist – when in fact they believe no such thing.
The OP then attempts to attack this false position (straw man) in a failed effort to discredit his opponents.
This fails as a straw man fallacy.
The OP as contrived a lie in an effort to misrepresent his opponents' position, that 'liberals' feel 'entitled' to be racist – when in fact they believe no such thing.
The OP then attempts to attack this false position (straw man) in a failed effort to discredit his opponents.
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This is a good read on the topic. Progs' embrace of PC SJW crap is anathema to a Free Society.
Ultimately, this ideology, known to many as ‘political correctness’, subordinates the principles underpinning a free society – freedom of speech, rule of law, rationality, and an egalitarian ethos – to power relations. What’s important is not supporting individual liberty and equality, but focusing on who is privileged, and acting accordingly to undermine their privilege. And thus, under the banner of social justice, illiberal politics are excused in places that should be bastions of freedom.
Thoughts on political correctness and SJW tomowolade
Ultimately, this ideology, known to many as ‘political correctness’, subordinates the principles underpinning a free society – freedom of speech, rule of law, rationality, and an egalitarian ethos – to power relations. What’s important is not supporting individual liberty and equality, but focusing on who is privileged, and acting accordingly to undermine their privilege. And thus, under the banner of social justice, illiberal politics are excused in places that should be bastions of freedom.
Thoughts on political correctness and SJW tomowolade
Sounds like me.
I don't feel entitled to be racist. I admit when and how I'm racist. I may not want blacks moving into my neighborhood but that's because of all the problems that come with it. If those problems didn't come I wouldn't care who moved in next door to me. Could even be an asian like unkotare. Even with the smell I'm sure the man of few words doesn't bother his neighbors. No asians do in America.
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So you are willing to kick out all the black and brown supremacists that come out in droves to vote for your party?John Hawkins'Nuff said. The blogosphere's boy blunder. No accident that the article's reader ratings call this piece "Ridiculous".
What a clusterfuck of cum hoc and biased sample fallacies. In view of the fact that Liberalism invented the concept "all men are created equal", racism is anathema to Liberalism. No wonder Hawkins and his ilk need all the fallacies they can get their hands on.
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Everything you think you know about right wingers is a straw man....
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