Presidential election, 2016

[Kinser79]

(11-12-2016, 02:45 PM)taramarie Wrote:

(11-12-2016, 10:01 AM)Odin Wrote:

(11-11-2016, 10:21 PM)taramarie Wrote: All you have to do in some cases is just show any sign you are not totally with the group and bam SEXIST RACIST DEPLORABLE! That is why I have mentioned there is some tribalism going on.

Yeah, I got banned from a left-wing board on Reddit for this exact reason. There was a thread about an incident at the University of North Dakota were some women locked out their black roommate from their dorm apartment and post an image to Instagram captioned "locked out the black bitch". Sure, what those women did was clearly insensitive and they clearly needed a stern talking to, but there were demands from the SJW types for these women to be expelled, and some extremists even wanted them banned from EVERY public university. I pointed out how stupidly counterproductive this all is and is just cathartic rage being rationalized as "justice" and won't do anything to change people's minds, which is when I got banned.

Wonderful point and it is spot on. It seems that all these extremists do is attack the intolerant with intollerance. I understand their anger BUT the way to combat intollerance is not with adding onto it. It just helps to create the intolerant, unable to see eye to eye polarization. Jut a simple thing but actions and words are important. Strategy is important. If lefties want to show they are against intollerance they need to show that they are willing to find other ways to combat it through education, exposure to different cultures, changing the media so that it is not sensationalized and inflaming anger further but just reports the news (I know boring right?), and just sitting down and getting to understand them and showing them facts but always in a tone that does not shut the person out or down. There are far more intelligent strategies than what I hear going on over there. Immigration does help too because when one grows up around people who are different they are far more accepting of them.

As for cultural right wingers (conservatives) who want to push their religion and beliefs onto people through politics I have one question. When there are so many people who do not share your beliefs in America why is it right to push those beliefs into politics? Ok one more question. How would you feel if say....Muslims wanted to push their religion into politics and have you live the lifestyle they approve of? I ask merely for self reflection and to consider how another would feel in the position they are in.

Well it seem that the left has finally bit Odin in the ass. I suppose his autism doesn't trump his white maleness. That said, they may be a minority but they are a vocal minority and is separating the traditional base from the left.

As for cultural right wingers pushing their religion onto others, that is largely a boomer phenomenon and is dying out.