But again, exactly what rhetoric are you citing as your “example”? You haven’t even clearly identified what GD thread you were referring to, much less which specific post(s) you think constitute “a reason why some conservatives may decide engaging just isn’t worth it”.
I mean, if you’re going to flounce out of an entire thread just because a few posters make unflattering generalizations about your ideology, that’s your right, but I don’t think you’re being all that oppressed.
Honestly, the vast majority of the regular posters on this board would do the same if they didn’t think that they had the vast left wing gang on this board to support them.
This board is extremely and openly biased toward the left. I personally don’t think that’s good or bad, it just is. I’m a moderate myself and I love this board and the discussions, and most of you folks.
I don’t see the board dying any time soon. It’s my favorite discussion place on the web.
In that hypothetical situation about the hypothetical actions of unidentified people hypothetically basing their behavior on their hypothetical beliefs about other posters, I wouldn’t view them as being all that oppressed, either.
I assume you mean that hypothetically.
If you need to have it explained to you why the statement “I’d just as soon see white guys all go back to where they came from” is racist either you are A) dumber than a box of rocks or B) deliberately disingenuous as a way to save face.
Either way it shows that there’s nothing of value in engaging you, other than exposing your deficiencies, but I have better things to do than that.
The alternative to this is what’s known as C) Reality.
Now, someone shouting at random white folks to “Go back to Europe” is racist. The comment “I would just as soon see white guys go back to where they come from” is not racist; it’s making a point about the racism of telling Blacks and other non-white people to “Go back where you came from” even if the target’s family has been in the United States for centuries, likely longer than the racist’s family has.
Just because Trump invites body shaming insults does not mean you should have the right to use them on this board. But that’s not up to me to decide.
Can you imagine Trump attempting exercise? Like something extreme, oh, a jog around the block? Or walking on his own two out of shape legs for a few holes on a golf course? The man is a shining model of fitness. When the so-called president apologizes to the people he’s made fun of, out of nothing more than their appearance, I’ll stop calling him a fat orange lazy slob. Shit, he called out one of his own supporters last week to “get some exercise”. Fuck him. Of course, Trump only did that because he was wrong again, thought the guy was not a supporter.
Noted again that you can not acknowledge when your sources pull your leg.
And as for your, yet another, dumb reply here: Yes, I have the right to do so, although I do not use it as often with the Agent Orange* that we have as president.
Guys?
Body shaming? Kinda shitty, maybe stop doing it.
It’s called “pointing out hypocrisy”, which is kind of hard to do if you can’t show how he is being hypocritical.
Specifically, when posted by a white guy. What does it even mean for “all white guys” to “go back to where they came from”? The leitmotif of white nationalism is basically that all the white guys already are “where they came from” in the sense of where they’re entitled to be, and it’s all the other “invaders”/“intruders” who need to “go back”. So when a white guy says that he’d like “all white guys” to “go back to where they came from”, it reads as…
…(prepare to have your mind blown)…
…a joke making fun of white nationalism. (As Monty already intelligently explained.)
Well, for someone who claims to have better things to do than responding to me, you sure are doing quite a bit of responding to me.
If Trump has a body capable of being shamed, he can take his own freely dispensed advise and get off of his lazy ass and get some exercise.
What aboutism isn’t a moderate position anymore. It tacked hard to the right, and they are owning it for all intents and purposes.
Here’s the thread, though it was already linked above. It seems clear to me the premise of the thread is predicated on groups of people, right wingers and gun rights folks, being racist. It’s super tedious, and while I enjoy discussing a variety of topics, this level of tedium is, unappealing.
I’m certainly not oppressed, never implied that I was.
When you insult an asshole for being fat, he probably won’t know or care. You know who will notice and probably will care? Other fat people in the thread, who are being told, whether you meant it or not, that they deserve to be insulted for being fat.
I see your point, you know. But, also, fuck Trump. :mad:
:dubious: AFAICT, there’s one poster in that thread that you closed, namely the OP, incontinently raving about “right wingers” hypothetically doing bad shit in an unrealistic hypothetical situation, and one other poster making a drive-by one-liner also insulting to right-wingers.
Everybody else in the thread, of various political stripes, was rebutting various aspects of the OP’s posts and/or criticizing particular ideological positions rather than undifferentiated “right wingers” in general.
And that’s what got you miffed enough to post the following butthurtery in response to my request for cites illustrating bump’s claim that the Dope has become intolerant of “disagreeing with the party line”?
Sorry to say it, but: Snowflake. :rolleyes:
No, it was the first example that came to mind. I’ve read the majority of threads on the board for many years. Would you like a treatise detailing every example available? You ask for an example, one is provided. Then it’s criticized as not representative. How far down the rabbit hole would you like to go? Consider you’re actively participating in a thread about the tea party calling them racists.
But that’s a dumb thread that most Dopers, liberal or conservative, appear to recognize was dumb. By my reading, at least. If that demonstrates anything about the Dope, it’s that most liberal and conservative Dopers can come together to crap on dumb threads.