Are the people who keep posting these kinds of threads complete morons, or are they trolls?
Why can’t they be both, like the late Earl Warren?
Shouldn’t there be a poll with this thread?
It seems like the standard right wing tactic of accusing the left wing of being “just as bad” regardless of how blatantly silly the accusation is. There’s even a “Liberals hate gays” thread in this very forum.
Well, that was just typical Shodan trolling. Remember, on the SDMB Rightards are a protected species.
The one in GD, however, must be one of them deep cover trolls. Join date was 8 years ago.
-Joe
Liberals Hate Gays is Scylla’s thread.
“If you won’t let me hate other people because of their race…
then you must be racist against me! Hurrrr Hurrr Hurrr”
This is not an original concept, but it is born anew every now and then.
Well, old white guys pretty much all look alike.
There was in my mind when I created the thread, and then left it off.
That’s because you’re racist.
What, a troll poll?
Now I feel bad. Scylla only trolls via OPs as opposed to Shodan, who trolls with every post.
-Joe
You can usually tell those two apart based on location: Scylla is on some rocky shore, whereas Shodan’s at the OK Corral.
I did a search and didn’t find it, so obviously my search was flawed (and I was too annoyed with the mandatory delay between searches to continue), but who was the stupid fucker who asked whether the Mike Rowe jeans commercial was racist?
EVIL COW PIE apparently.
As a poster in this thread, I can only speak for myself. And I say JackBatty you, pal.
“Just as bad”… no. I’ll accept that we have alot more “racists” on our side than you.
What we do reject is the effort to tar the entire group based on the actions of a small percentage.
…and what we like to point out is how certain things get overlooked when your side does them.
How do you register any complaints, anyways?
I’ve got a form next to my bed.
Of course you mean when a *small percentage *of lib/Dems do them, not the entire “side”.
I agree that among conservatives there are fewer outright racists than there used to be. Over the past century liberals have had to fight conservatives tooth and nail for every social-justice gain we take for granted today–giving women the right to vote, passing the Civil Rights Act, child labor laws, affirmative action, equal pay for equal work, fair housing laws. Today the battles are over immigration, same-sex marriage, racial profiling, bi-lingual education, prayer in schools, etc., and guess what–conservatives are uniformly on the side of white, male, Christian heterosexuals. You don’t have to preach hate to be against social justice.
I agree that liberals have their own brand of narrow-mindedness. I don’t agree with every position of the left, and parts of the canon are downright obnoxious. But prominent conservatives–politicians and pundits with large followings, not a “small percentage” – routinely go through weird contortions to paint rich, powerful white men as victims of a multi-racial conspiracy. The fact that a large percentage of Republicans believe Obama is a Muslim and not an American citizen speaks volumes.