I’m trying to think of the books that made me a liberal. The Bible, for sure, atheist though I am today. Believe it or not, Grimm’s Fairy Tales: something about be nice to everybody regardless of their appearance, because the old beggar woman might be a good witch who can help you. Okay, that one’s kind of out there.
Sesame Street and Star Trek: we can solve our problems if we all work together. It doesn’t matter what race or gender you are.
Wonder Woman and The Bionic Woman: women can do anything.
Soap: gays and lesbians are people too: "Burt, look at me. I’m a person!"
Can you give me an example of a prominent liberal saying something stupid and then claiming people want to impinge on their free speech by criticising them? An elected official?
I’ve heard liberals say it too. Don’t pretend liberals are perfect. I speak as one myself.
And on the other hand, every once in a while, liberals do tend to want to criminalize free speech sometimes, for various reasons. So sometimes right wingers have a legitimate complaint. In fact, there’s probably a liberal out there right now who has said comments like Kincannon’s should be banned as hate speech.
If they want it banned off of Twitter, that’s hardly a free speech issue, since it doesn’t involve gov’t action. If enough Twitter users bitch about what Kincannon said, and Twitter decides to ban that shit, that’s everyone’s right, and Kincannon’s free speech rights were not violated.
BTW, I saw someone also trying to get him in trouble with the SC bar (he’s a lawyer) for unethical behavior, based on some of his prior bullshit. I like that idea.
Then it doesn’t rebut the statements quoted here by prominent Republicans. Go back and read this thread from the beginning; the vast majority of stupid Republican ideas are from elected Republicans, Republican donors, or their mouthpieces on Fox News. If we started quoting every nameless conservative idiot who posts on Free Republic, we would be here all day.
I don’t think I was pretending liberals were perfect, I just don’t believe they do what you say they do, or if they do it’s a tiny percentage of internet cranks compared to being common among right wing internet cranks and even elected right wing officials do it.
BTW I have noticed you keep claiming to be a liberal but if you are you’re one of the most conservative ones I have ever encountered. I don’t mean to open this up as an accusation, but I honestly don’t consider you one.
Ah the good old “they do it too so we can’t complain” false equivelency because some dumbass youtuber, somewhere, might’ve done the same thing, though you can’t cite any. No dice buddy. Typical conservative hogwash argument.
That sounds good, but wait a minute. Cantor seems to expect to someday lead the GOP. Right now the GOP has thisguy:
Take a cursory glance at those links and ask yourself, “Does Broun belong on a science committee?” Take it generally at first- your 8th grade science committee; the university science committee; the United States House of Representatives science committee. Does Broun belong?
I say- emphatically no. As long as this guy is on the science committee, I am afraid I have to insist that no GOPer even talk about education policy, and I’m afraid that includes Cantor. That’s right, don’t talk about it. Don’t even think about it. Don’t look at it. Don’t write about it. By all means do.not.touch.it. Can you *point *at it? No, absolutely not, you may *not *even point at it. I strongly suspect you of a catch, or mendacity at least.
If Eric Cantor publicly denounced Paul Broun’s presence on the science committee, even if he were not powerful enough to eject Broun from it, then at that point I think he ought to be allowed to refer to public education and have his opinions seriously considered. I think ejecting Broun from the science committee would fall well within the standard of ‘moving heaven and earth’ to improve education for the most vulnerable Americans, along with practically everyone else. It would be at least a minimum to *demonstrating * that he is serious and not simply blowing sunshine in our faces.
Otherwise: nobody asked the Party of Stupid to advise us on education :mad:
Can somebody please tell Bryan Fischer that a state senator is trying to force high school students to read a novel that explicitly promotes atheism, and adultery?