Devo ([info]penguinemperor) wrote,
@ 2008-05-30 15:14:00
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Let's play a game:
Read the below list, then see what labels you can slap on me! Go ahead and post them in the comments section.


Sixteen Ways to Be a Good Liberal


1. You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on demand.

2. You have to believe that business's create oppression and governments create prosperity.

3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens are more of a threat than nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Iran, China and North Korea.

4. You have to believe that there was no art before federal funding.

5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical changes in the earth's climate and more affected by soccer moms driving SUV's.

6. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding.

7. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th-graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.

8. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but PETA activists do.

9. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.

10. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.

11. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.

12. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, or Abraham Lincoln.

13. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.

14. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.

15. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag queens and transvestites should be constitutionally protected, and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.

16. You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right-wing conspiracy.




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[info]auddess
2008-05-31 01:09 am UTC (link)
ONE WAY TO BE A GOOD EXTREMIST

1. You have to believe that everyone who disagrees with you/labels themselves differently from you fits into one little box of stereotypes and beliefs.

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[info]penguinemperor
2008-06-01 12:32 am UTC (link)
There's one.

And what you're describing isn't an "EXTREMIST", it's a "BIGOT".

You did get the self-referential/self-deprecating and blatantly, deliberately hypocritical theme to this post, right? I asked people to go slap labels on me right before I slapped a label on over 50% of the American people.

And for the record, I am not a bigot, nor do I think I am particularly prejudiced (though I may be "a little bit racist... sometimes!"). I don't actually believe that all liberals agree with all the points in that post, I don't believe that people who are have different views than I do are some how lesser than I am, nor am I intolerant of others' points of view as a rule. (obviously, someone who believes sleeping with 10-year-olds should be legal already and forever has my "intolerance")

However, I found this list sufficiently amusing and thought-provoking to be worth reposting. (the capitals are legacy of the original email I pulled this from... I probably would have done well to decapitalize so as not to hurt anyone's ears... er, eyes, or seem like I'm being an EXTREMIST)

And, I'd hoped this would be obvious: I posted this list not because I believe all liberals believe every one of these notions, or that one must agree with them all to be a "good" liberal (an oxymoron, of course -- HA!). I posted it because I find each and every one of the views illustrated distasteful and hypocritical and felt like rousing some rabbles about it. (I think that's called "trolling" or some such in interwebz lingo.)

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[info]penguinemperor
2008-06-01 12:32 am UTC (link)
Lack of comment editing is my BANE.

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[info]auddess
2008-06-01 02:14 am UTC (link)
*shrug* you asked for responses, I gave you one. I didn't say that I thought you believed the above, or are a bigot or extremist or whatever, that was just my response to the list. =)

You're probably right about the bigot versus extremist thing, I wasn't thinking too deeply about that.

I could get more into what I might or might not think about the list as a whole, but the reason I posted as I did was to express general distain for these types of lists rather than go into my personal politics.

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[info]angelloffyre
2008-06-12 11:02 am UTC (link)
lolz, i have a great video of the same theme for conservatives.


bah, how can we be such good friends and have such opposite political views?

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[info]penguinemperor
2008-06-19 12:58 am UTC (link)
Honestly... probably...

because we just never talk about it. Though I would be curious to hear what you had to say.

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