# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/101 "2010-08-03T16:01:36Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > There’s no correlation between these things and the financial theft, excesses, intimidation and brutality of labor unions. For one thing, with the exception of Jim Crow laws which were laws and not private entities, they’re all fairly isolated occurrances, whereas labor unions and their brutality and misdeeds were allowed to spread all throughout the nation. And they have existed and committed their various criminal wrongdoings for many more years and during more so-called enlightened times. Comparing labor unions to any of the things **tomndebb** listed is apples and oranges. There is no depth to which he will not sink, no level of willful ignorance he is unable to embrace. It astounding, really. I see him, over and over, repeat this performance, but every time I am repulsed anew. Let us all take a moment to feel pity for whoever has to spend holidays listening to it in person, and is denied the mercy of being able to scroll past the bile. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/102 "2010-08-03T16:41:06Z")
> [@NinjaChick](#): > > > [@joebuck20](#): > > > > The Hobbits have long hair and wear sandals, they are therefore liberal tree hugging hippies. > > Negative. Most hobbits never wear any sort of footwear. That makes them even more liberal then. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/103 "2010-08-03T16:59:49Z")
Hi, guys! I was just on my way to the “Make Abortion Mandatory” meeting from my doctor’s office after picking up my medical marijuana and stopped by just to see what’s happening. So… what’s happening? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/104 "2010-08-03T17:22:26Z")
> [@Who\_me\_1](#): > > Hi, guys! I was just on my way to the “Make Abortion Mandatory” meeting from my doctor’s office after picking up my medical marijuana and stopped by just to see what’s happening. > > So… what’s happening? Troll starts thread. Troll leaves thread. Troll doesn’t return to thread. In other words, business as usual. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/105 "2010-08-03T17:27:49Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > > [@Who\_me\_1](#): > > > > Hi, guys! I was just on my way to the “Make Abortion Mandatory” meeting from my doctor’s office after picking up my medical marijuana and stopped by just to see what’s happening. > > > > So… what’s happening? > > Troll starts thread. Troll leaves thread. Troll doesn’t return to thread. In other words, business as usual. A crude, yet still apparently effective, strategy. And I thought this place had a reputation for being _brighter_ than the average message board. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/106 "2010-08-03T17:33:32Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > > [@42fish](#): > > > > I’ve got Julie Andrews singing “Illegal aliens and welfare queens/These are a few of our liberal things” going through my brain on an endless loop. I blame the damn socialists. > > Not socialists, lyricists. Both Jewish, so same difference. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Bambro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@Bambro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambro)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/107 "2010-08-03T17:46:24Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > > [@Sailboat](#): > > > > Yeah, it “just goes to show” the limits of what you know, and not something about liberalism. > > There’s no correlation between these things and the financial theft, excesses, intimidation and brutality of labor unions. For one thing, with the exception of Jim Crow laws which were laws and not private entities, they’re all fairly isolated occurrances, whereas labor unions and their brutality and misdeeds were allowed to spread all throughout the nation. And they have existed and committed their various criminal wrongdoings for many more years and during more so-called enlightened times. Comparing labor unions to any of the things **tomndebb** listed is apples and oranges. _checks pockets_ Anyone see where I put those damn goalposts? ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/108 "2010-08-03T17:47:04Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Troll starts thread. Troll leaves thread. Troll doesn’t return to thread. In other words, business as usual. You forgot the “Long-term dipshit continues to spew ‘facts’ from his own reality that have no basis anywhere else, thereby keeping the thread going in the absence of the original troll” part. ---
**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 3, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/109 "2010-08-03T17:53:02Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > > [@Chefguy](#): > > > > Troll starts thread. Troll leaves thread. Troll doesn’t return to thread. In other words, business as usual. > > A crude, yet still apparently effective, strategy. And I thought this place had a reputation for being _brighter_ than the average message board. Difference is, we all know what’s going down, and are exploiting the trolls’ efforts for our own amusement. Note the distinct lack of outrage, and the preponderance of chortling that replaces it. ---
**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 3, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/110 "2010-08-03T17:55:39Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Troll starts thread. Troll leaves thread. Troll doesn’t return to thread … … Our troll … We’re gonna need a bigger thread. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/111 "2010-08-03T18:25:21Z")
> [@begbert2](#): > > > [@Ogre](#): > > > > A crude, yet still apparently effective, strategy. And I thought this place had a reputation for being _brighter_ than the average message board. > > Difference is, we all know what’s going down, and are exploiting the trolls’ efforts for our own amusement. Note the distinct lack of outrage, and the preponderance of chortling that replaces it. That’s why I keep coming back to it: the amusement factor. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/112 "2010-08-03T18:31:47Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > > [@bullrun](#): > > > > Liberalism finds a host country and immediately begins to undermine it’s judicial systems. > > Actually I believe it first begins to infect and undermine the country’s educational system. Then comes its news and entertainment media. THEN comes its judicial systems. > > Or at least that’s the way it’s worked here. > > Still, you raise many salient points and I might become interested in your newsletter (if you’re around long enough to publish it). > > 😃 When does liberalism corrupt our precious, precious bodily fluids? Our essence? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/113 "2010-08-03T18:40:40Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > > [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > > > Actually I believe it first begins to infect and undermine the country’s educational system. Then comes its news and entertainment media. THEN comes its judicial systems. > > > > Or at least that’s the way it’s worked here. > > > > Still, you raise many salient points and I might become interested in your newsletter (if you’re around long enough to publish it). > > > > 😃 > > When does liberalism corrupt our precious, precious bodily fluids? Our essence? :dubious: You **do** have to at least buy it a drink first! ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/114 "2010-08-03T18:40:50Z")
> [@Stan\_Shmenge](#): > > Bullrun, you aren’t helping. This. Plus, if you’re going to do an over the top rant, it should be funny. Your stuff isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Satyagrahi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@Satyagrahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satyagrahi)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/115 "2010-08-03T19:24:41Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > > [@Gorsnak](#): > > > > I can’t tell who’s wooshing who. > > Postmodern, ain’t it? 😃 > > GENX DUDE 1: That Homer Simpson is so cool. > > GD2: Are you being sarcastic, man? > > [pause] > > GD1: I don’t even know any more. When I read through (alright, skimmed through) the OP, I took it as a whoosh. Not _real_ funny maybe but, still a whoosh. But I see the majority here are taking it as intended to be serious. Please tell me everyone else here is wrong. That’s not too much to ask, is it?? ---
**Author:** ![bullrun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@bullrun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bullrun)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/116 "2010-08-03T19:25:26Z")
Hahahaha…I know voting exams are illegal…I just think they ought to be brought back. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/117 "2010-08-03T19:30:05Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > > [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > > > When does liberalism corrupt our precious, precious bodily fluids? Our essence? > > :dubious: You **do** have to at least buy it a drink first! Of course! I’m sorry, I feel like such a cad. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/118 "2010-08-03T19:31:27Z")
Are you laughing as you type “hahahaha,” or are you dictating? ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/119 "2010-08-03T19:46:25Z")
> [@bullrun](#): > > Hahahaha…I know voting exams are illegal…I just think they ought to be brought back. As I’ve said elsewhere, I’m all for it, and we should make them _difficult_ and fact-based about voting law and history. There’d never be another ignorant, reactionary twit elected anywhere in the US, because the majority of Republican voters would fail the tests. The liberals would reign supreme for pretty much all time if that happened. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934/120 "2010-08-03T19:46:43Z")
> [@bullrun](#): > > Hahahaha…I know voting exams are illegal…I just think they ought to be brought back. Obviously, you don’t care enough to have returned to the thread and answered the (admittedly, few) questions that were asked about your view. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-havent-these-liberal-things-been-banned/548934.md?page=7)