# Why haven't these liberal things been banned? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 2, 2010, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934 "2010-08-02T21:19:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![begbert2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/begbert2/32/3357_2.png) [@begbert2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/begbert2)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/41 "2010-08-02T22:52:55Z")
> [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](#): > > Too tard didn’t read. > > On a related note what’s with all these half a tard racists appearing on the boards suddenly ? Half-tards are half-price right now. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/42 "2010-08-02T22:56:26Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > They taught me that yes, there were some minor problems between labor and management, but really, the owners only had the workers best interests at heart, seeking to protect them from Communist propaganda and subversion. But I’d been on a picket line with my Teamster grandfather, and I already knew that was a crock. Didn’t even have to wait to talk to a very old man who told me what obscenity was hidden within the word “Pinkerton”. Hmmm…did your kindly old grandfather tell you about how union guys would beat people into submission with baseball bats if they dared to try to cross picket lines? Did he tell you about how my 20-year-old sister was accosted in the parking lot of her workplace and threatened with violence if she didn’t vote to unionize the place? Did he tell you about the lies and misrepresentations made about the owner of the auto parts warehouse I worked at in the late sixties and the threats and intimidation which went into the Teamsters’ efforts to unionize that place (and which, I’m proud to say, I played a significant role in defeating)? And did he tell you about all the union fees that workers were forced to pay into funds that were raided shamelessly and illegally by their leaders? I know of no other entity in the country that has been allowed to get away with beatings and threats and intimidation like labor unions have. Just goes to show what I’ve always said: liberalism (and its offshoots like labor unions) is a most intolerent, unyielding, dictatorial and repressive political ideology. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/43 "2010-08-02T23:03:20Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Just goes to show what I’ve always said: liberalism (and its offshoots like labor unions) is a most intolerent, unyielding, dictatorial and repressive political ideology. Indeed. Those liberals that started the McCarthy hearings and drafted the Patriot Act and hosed down those black civil rights marchers were some bastards for sure. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/44 "2010-08-02T23:04:16Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > > [@Algorithm](#): > > > > Jesus, man, have you no respect or empathy for the comma and ellipsis? How can you abuse them in such a way? > > Hey! [He was a teacher](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=571939), dammit! He doesn’t have to worry about things like spelling, grammar, or punctuation! Or even coherence, logic, or reality! If he wants to post poorly formatted and hilariously idiotic right wing screed, who are you to point and laugh at his obvious stupidity? _He was a teacher!_ I’m thinking phys.ed. . . . ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/45 "2010-08-02T23:07:24Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > > [@elucidator](#): > > > > They taught me that yes, there were some minor problems between labor and management, but really, the owners only had the workers best interests at heart, seeking to protect them from Communist propaganda and subversion. But I’d been on a picket line with my Teamster grandfather, and I already knew that was a crock. Didn’t even have to wait to talk to a very old man who told me what obscenity was hidden within the word “Pinkerton”. > > Hmmm…did your kindly old grandfather tell you about how union guys would beat people into submission with baseball bats if they dared to try to cross picket lines? Did he tell you about how my 20-year-old sister was accosted in the parking lot of her workplace and threatened with violence if she didn’t vote to unionize the place? Did he tell you about the lies and misrepresentations made about the owner of the auto parts warehouse I worked at in the late sixties and the threats and intimidation which went into the Teamsters’ efforts to unionize that place (and which, I’m proud to say, I played a significant role in defeating)? And did he tell you about all the union fees that workers were forced to pay into funds that were raided shamelessly and illegally by their leaders? Wow, you’re like the Forest Gump of the conservative world; you’re everywhere at just the right time to witness seminal historical events! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/46 "2010-08-02T23:07:56Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > …I know of no other entity in the country that has been allowed to get away with beatings and threats and intimidation like labor unions have… Your ignorance has a certain pristine beauty to it, so carefully tended, a garden of misinformation with pesky weeds of truth ruthlessly policed. I take you at your word, you really don’t know. Sixty some years old, and you don’t know beans about American history. However did you manage that? ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/47 "2010-08-02T23:09:18Z")
Obvious troll is obvious. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/48 "2010-08-02T23:10:03Z")
**Woodstockybird!** Post #43! Jesus Marimba, man, what did I ever do to you? ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/49 "2010-08-02T23:12:01Z")
Pat, I’d like to buy a paragraph break please! ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/50 "2010-08-02T23:12:39Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > > [@hotflungwok](#): > > > > Hey! [He was a teacher](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=571939), dammit! He doesn’t have to worry about things like spelling, grammar, or punctuation! Or even coherence, logic, or reality! If he wants to post poorly formatted and hilariously idiotic right wing screed, who are you to point and laugh at his obvious stupidity? _He was a teacher!_ > > I’m thinking phys.ed. . . . He claims to have a degree in history and to be a former history teacher. And yet he doesn’t understand that voting exams are illegal. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/51 "2010-08-02T23:14:32Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Oh, can we PLEASE keep this guy for a while? Please please please? We haven’t had a really entertaining wacko for a while, and he hasn’t really broken any rules. If you clean up after him and take him for walks, we’ll see. Otherwise he goes to the farm upstate. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/52 "2010-08-02T23:14:39Z")
The death spiral is always my favorite part. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/53 "2010-08-02T23:18:06Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > > [@bullrun](#): > > > > It is common knowledge throughout the universe that leftist carry a disease called liberalism. > > _touches **bullrun** _ > > You’re infected! > > _One of us! One of us! One of us!_ \ Can we give him back now? ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/54 "2010-08-02T23:25:30Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > **Woodstockybird!** Post #43! Jesus Marimba, man, what did I ever do to you? Goddammit! I swear I quoted SA. Let’s see who gets the attribution on this one. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/55 "2010-08-02T23:35:10Z")
> [@bullrun](#): > > It is common knowledge throughout the universe that leftist carry a disease called liberalism. Do you have a question to ask, or did you want to make a speech? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/56 "2010-08-02T23:50:10Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > **Woodstockybird!** Post #43! Jesus Marimba, man, what did I ever do to you? > [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > > [@elucidator](#): > > > > **Woodstockybird!** Post #43! Jesus Marimba, man, what did I ever do to you? > > Goddammit! I swear I quoted SA. Let’s see who gets the attribution on this one. Figuring that **elucidator** doesn’t want to be mistaken for **Starving Artist** any more than **Starving Artist** wants to be mistaken for **elucidator** , I fixed the quote tag in that post. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/57 "2010-08-02T23:57:27Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > > [@bullrun](#): > > > > It is common knowledge throughout the universe that leftist carry a disease called liberalism. > > Do you have a question to ask, or did you want to make a speech? This isn’t the forum for asking questions. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/58 "2010-08-02T23:58:19Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > > [@carnivorousplant](#): > > > > Do you have a question to ask, or did you want to make a speech? > > This isn’t the forum for asking questions. Humor. It is a difficult concept. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/59 "2010-08-03T00:37:16Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I forgot about the teacher thing. **bullrun** is what happens when you get hooked on sniffing glue. I have heard once you get high on glue ,you will stick with it. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/60 "2010-08-03T00:41:28Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > > [@Marley23](#): > > > > I forgot about the teacher thing. **bullrun** is what happens when you get hooked on sniffing glue. > > I have heard once you get high on glue ,you will stick with it. Why hasn’t these pun things been banned? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934.md?page=4)