The extremists get the headlines.
You love the passive voice. When you use assign agency, it turns out what you’re saying isn’t true.
Posters on this board clearly don’t ignore the non-fundy perspective. Or at least, not as a majority. This thread provides clear counterexamples.
The media don’t. The top two religious news stories of the past week or so are the ordination of a new pope (not a fundie/evangelical type) and the Episcopalian refusal to treat White South Africans as refugees.
Do the Fundies get outsized focus? Sure. But that’s a nuanced position. Blanket statements are false, obviously so when you avoid the passive voice.
I agree with this. They can’t defend their positions. And will not admit that it really is about racism, misogyny, bigoty, and homophobia.
I will defend them this >.< much though. I don’t think they understand why they feel that way. And there is no way to defend those feelings, because they don’t understand it. Those feelings have no place in a modern society, and now they are the ones that don’t fit in.
Thankfully we can’t trace any of those things to the plain text reading of an original source.
Sadly, they fit in fine in America, just not on this board.
Even more sadly, going back to just open bigoty would be an improvement at this point in time.
Well, look, all apologies if I’ve been doing this wrong, but: I didn’t see any point in constantly restating my positions — and I don’t believe I’ve felt any embarrassment, or some need to defend anything else the useful idiot does in his spare time from him doing the stuff that I’m in favor of.
Was I supposed to be posting that more often? A quick ‘I Have No Regrets’ once a week, or once a day, or something?
No, I already know you’re a piece of shit. I don’t need the confirmations.
Good to know you have no problem with the blatantly illegal and unconstitutional way Trump is doing that thing you’re in favor of.
But is he making the trains run on time?
I don’t believe so, no.
He’s become nostalgic
Wants to own tomorrow
Discipline, is his passion!
Now, he says there’s none!
Outside the trains don’t run on time
He believes it’s not coincidence
Gang of Four ~ Outside the Trains Don’t Run on Time
Yeah. It’s been noticeable for quite some time that the dwindling minority of people willing to even try to defend Republican/right wing positions (in places where open bigotry isn’t considered acceptable) spend a lot of time avoiding making any actual defenses. Instead they bob and weave, insisting that non-bigoted justifications for the positions of the Right must exist while never giving any.
We saw that demonstrated during the debate here and on other boards over same sex marriage, and in public as well; with the difference in the public version that they had the literal opportunity to make their case in court.
I recall reading and participating in years of arguments with people who kept insisting over and over that a non-bigoted reason to oppose SSM must exist, while refusing to even try to produce one. But it turned out? There wasn’t one.
“Words mean something.”
(Not really an argument, more like an evasion.)
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Kristi Noem (on backup vocals): Bang, bang, shoot, shoot.
‘YOU’RE NOT MR. TRUMP’S YOKO KRISTI!!!
I’m Mr. Trump’s Yoko!’ ~ Laura Loomer
I’d say, “bravo”, if this wasn’t so close to tragic.
Frank Drebin: “What’s a yokokristi?”
A chocolate-flavored crispy rice cereal.