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Study: Online, liberals far less tolerant than normal people

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IMHO, liberals get "offended" by fucking everything they don't like. And if they can, will either play the race card, the poor/rich card, or the rights card, even when they dont apply at all.

I think liberals today have become too accustomed to silencing their opposition through the use of political correctness.
 
corwin said:
You all do realize that facebook post is most likely faked right?

On the other hand it is almost true...if the Earth were 10% closer or further than it is it would be outside the habitable zone.

And as far as the study goes, obvious conclusions are obvious
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I see nonsensical statements like that posted all the damn time from my religious relatives/friends. I block their posts from my feed not because I'm intolerant...I just don't want to read it.

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Train said:
IMHO, liberals get "offended" by fucking everything they don't like. And if they can, will either play the race card, the poor/rich card, or the rights card, even when they dont apply at all.

I think liberals today have become too accustomed to silencing their opposition through the use of political correctness.
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I agree. But based on how this forum tends to swing, I would stop bringing it up.
 
Train said:
IMHO, liberals get "offended" by fucking everything they don't like. And if they can, will either play the race card, the poor/rich card, or the rights card, even when they dont apply at all.

I think liberals today have become too accustomed to silencing their opposition through the use of political correctness.
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I see that happen on both sides, except replace most of the cards with 'faith card' or 'lack of personal responsibility card' for use by conservatives. There's some validity to each of those 'cards' and they're each often TERRIBLY overused.

Edit: Or the 'patriotism!', 'FUD'/'terrorism'/'9/11' or '(my) morality' cards.

Sometimes those cards are called for, in either direction. Most of the time they're not. I also think the stereotypes each side has about the other are very far from the truth or the average person on either end of the political spectrum. I think the stereotypes tend to come from folks who will spend a lot of time in P&N, but I do not think the ideologies of those folks are especially representative of most of the population.
 
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You want to see a bunch of whiny leftard, just go on the CBC web site and read the comments on ANY articles. They'll find a way to bash the conservative no matter what the subject is. So yes, liberals are a bunch of intolerant bastards (at the CBC anyway).
 
rivan said:
I see that happen on both sides, except replace most of the cards with 'faith card' or 'lack of personal responsibility card' for use by conservatives. There's some validity to each of those 'cards' and they're each often TERRIBLY overused.
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I dont think either of those fall into the PC category like the cards the libs use. A) I'm not even sure how someone would play a faith card. Ragging on religion is certainly not taboo in this country. And B) The term lack of personal responsibility is thrown around a lot, but I dont see how in any way it is used to silence the opposition, I just think typically he opposition has nothing left to retort with (then the hate/race cards come out)
 
P&N. Why would you even think to post this here? I got my comments obliterated in the George Carlin thread and they weren't NEARLY as political (response to a crackpot conspiracy non-theory).
 
Ancalagon44 said:
almost true? 10 feet is very different to 10%. Besides which, the respondent mentions that the Sun's habitable zone is from 0.95 AU to 1.37 AU - ie a lot more than 10% difference.
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That is not the "Earth habitable zone," but the "habitable zone" for potentially human-habitable planets with different atmospheres, geologic activity, moons, and such to compensate for the difference and make things livable for us.
 
Train said:
I dont think either of those fall into the PC category like the cards the libs use. A) I'm not even sure how someone would play a faith card. Ragging on religion is certainly not taboo in this country. And B) The term lack of personal responsibility is thrown around a lot, but I dont see how in any way it is used to silence the opposition, I just think typically he opposition has nothing left to retort with (then the hate/race cards come out)
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You're not sure how religious faith has ever been used to stop or stifle a conversation?
 
rivan said:
Does there need to be, to have the same basic effect on the conversation?
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Absolutely, like I said, trashing religion is NOT taboo. It's become very common. Could you imagine doing the same to blacks? Or even insinuating something negative about a race? It's so PC to be blind to race that if you even point out something factual, however benign it may be, its considered risky (or even "political suicide"). The race card is so powerful it can drown out any productive discussion simply by linking something to race.
 
lxskllr said:
In general, I'm fine with that explanation, but it doesn't pass the common sense test. Even assuming a person knows absolutely nothing about science, thinking a 10' change in orbit would make a planet uninhabitable is ridiculous
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But anyone who continues to run with it after changing to 10 ft is oblivious enough to the scale of EVERYTHING to irritate the fucking shit out of me.

I mean seriously - 10 feet versus 49 BILLION feet? Oh, fuck it. Close enough, right?
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I agree with both...common sense should win but idiots come in all flavors...like this one
DominionSeraph said:
Fundie apologizing for fundie apologists?
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DERP
 
This study simply shows liberals are the ones smart enough to understand how sites like facebook work beyond just creating an account and logging in.
 
Train said:
Absolutely, like I said, trashing religion is NOT taboo. It's become very common. Could you imagine doing the same to blacks? Or even insinuating something negative about a race? It's so PC to be blind to race that if you even point out something factual, however benign it may be, its considered risky (or even "political suicide"). The race card is so powerful it can drown out any productive discussion simply by linking something to race.
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I agree with you that race is a stronger card to play, and it's played too often and very often for the absolute wrong reasons.

That said, the faith card is so strong it prevents some conversations entirely. I will not even start some conversations with certain people who are highly faithful, for a number of reasons, and one of those reasons is their intolerance for any argument against their faith and that any of those arguments might offend them (which sometimes matters, like for family members).

The faith card isn't the crux of my argument, though - it's that conservatives have cards of their own that they play just like liberals do. They may not be as ultra-PC but what difference does it make? No matter what card it is, it's so very often totally uncalled for.

Just look at the mileage the 9/11, terrorism and patriotism cards got. From both sides, but in my perception very strongly on the conservative side.
 
Train said:
IMHO, liberals get "offended" by fucking everything they don't like. And if they can, will either play the race card, the poor/rich card, or the rights card, even when they dont apply at all.

I think liberals today have become too accustomed to silencing their opposition through the use of political correctness.
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rivan said:
I see that happen on both sides, except replace most of the cards with 'faith card' or 'lack of personal responsibility card' for use by conservatives. There's some validity to each of those 'cards' and they're each often TERRIBLY overused.

Edit: Or the 'patriotism!', 'FUD'/'terrorism'/'9/11' or '(my) morality' cards.

Sometimes those cards are called for, in either direction. Most of the time they're not. I also think the stereotypes each side has about the other are very far from the truth or the average person on either end of the political spectrum. I think the stereotypes tend to come from folks who will spend a lot of time in P&N, but I do not think the ideologies of those folks are especially representative of most of the population.
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Words of wisdom.
 
Breaking news alert! 99% of all statistics and polls are biased and/or pulled out of some rightwing retard evangelical's ass.
 
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Both sides are whackjobs with their extremist thinking. We have seen evidence of that in this thread which belongs in P&N anyways.
 
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