Political silliness..

[KevinK]

Can you somehow answer questions without injecting your own political bias into them? I mean I know it’s possible. I come here to read information and facts. I have to deal with political zealots on both sides of the fence daily. It would be nice to have at least one part of my life not surrounded by silly partisan jabs.

I guess a good question would be…

Why do people feel the need to inject partisan politics into subjects that simply do no call for it?

Before I get called a liberal wanker, or a right wing nut-job I’m neither. Neither side of the political spectrum has a moral advantage over one another. I though Bush was a horrible president, and right now Obama hasn’t showed any signs of being any better.

I guess I question the intelligence of someone that CLAIMS to be smart, yet is full of political zealotry to the point of obnoxiousness.

I guess if either side of the political spectrum was so just, one wouldn’t have to revert to making CONSTANT jabs about the “other side” where they simply don’t belong.

While it might make those that side with your beliefs feel all “Rah Rah” inside, it annoys the rest of us (read the majority) who read your page.

[PatriotGrrrl]

It’s a cultural thing. Different message boards have different cultures, and this one’s is very political and confrontational.

Go to a forum that’s about a particular subject - sports, hobbies, technology, etc. - and you can have conversations about whatever without bringing politics into it.

[JimOfAllTrades]

@KevinK

Can you somehow answer questions without injecting your own political bias into them?

Two things:

1 – I assume this is the column in question:

Is there any difference in quality between name-brand drugs and generics?

2 – It’s called a joke. Cecil is well known (at least by the people familiar with his writing) to have a fairly sarcastic sense of humor.

Welcome to the boards. Hang around, check out some of the columns and the message boards. I’m fairly sure you’ll see Unca Cec pokes fun at both sides pretty evenly. The rest of us, I’m not so sure.

[Fear_Itself]

@KevinK

Can you somehow answer questions without injecting your own political bias into them?

Knowledge has a liberal bias.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@KevinK

Before I get called a liberal wanker, or a right wing nut-job I’m neither. Neither side of the political spectrum has a moral advantage over one another.

What a strange coincidence that would be, were it true. Imagine a political system so precisely calibrated that both sides are morally equivalent in every way!

[SiXSwordS]

@Fear_Itself

Knowledge has a liberal bias.

Preserving knowledge and creating educational institutions engenders a conservative bias.