Presidential election, 2016

[Bob Butler 54]

(01-03-2017, 12:26 PM)The Wonkette Wrote:

(01-02-2017, 07:36 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(01-02-2017, 07:26 PM)Danilynn Wrote: ***still trying to figure out from one post if I'm the hillbilly or the slaveholder*** nice slurs by the way. try replacing those with slurs toward any other ethnic group and still see if they are socially acceptable, if not perhaps try not slinging slurs at southerners and Caucasians living in the south. neither was very nice, nor was it warranted.

This is why I just laugh when people like Bob accuse me of using "vile stereotypes" when I criticize progressives.  Yet he's fine with the outright slurs - as long as it's his side that is using them.

That slur was posted by Eric the Green, not Bob Butler.

Oh, I use the phrase often enough, and I've used it towards Warren.  I try not to use it simply when progressives are criticized, though.  It is a phase I use when someone badly twists and maligns the motivations and logic of an opponent.  I don't agree with every policy position of every progressive, and see us as quite worthy of criticism at times.  There is a problem though when we are perceived of as evil, insane, stupid or such like.  It is easy and appropriate to disagree with policies of those with different political inclinations, but it is a problem when someone thinks anyone who disagrees with them must have mental or emotional faults that renders them incompatible with polite society.  I can acknowledge and respect many of Warren's policy criticisms, but his understandings of the motivations of progressives seem absurd and loaded with malice.  Progressives are often equally ready to malign conservatives.  We are all too busy misconstruing each other's motivations to understand each other's motivations.