I once stumbled upon a left-leaning website that was sharply criticizing (in a satirical manner) a fictional conservative character, and I was annoyed at how they were inventing such a grossly distorted representation of conservatives. "No conservatives are THAT grotesquely narrow-minded and irrational. And even if someone WAS like that, other conservatives have enough concern for fairness to call him/her out. Please be more fair to the people you disagree with," I said. Then I started reading seer's threads in Civics, and I realized to my shock and horror that he's just like the fictional conservative character. I also realized to my shock and horror that the other conservatives here hardly ever bother calling him out, and in fact they actually seem to support him whole-heartedly.
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Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.--Isaiah 1:17
I don't think that all forms o[f] slavery are inherently immoral.--seer
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Originally posted by fm93 View PostI once stumbled upon a left-leaning website that was sharply criticizing (in a satirical manner) a fictional conservative character, and I was annoyed at how they were inventing such a grossly distorted representation of conservatives. "No conservatives are THAT grotesquely narrow-minded and irrational. And even if someone WAS like that, other conservatives have enough concern for fairness to call him/her out. Please be more fair to the people you disagree with," I said. Then I started reading seer's threads in Civics, and I realized to my shock and horror that he's just like the fictional conservative character. I also realized to my shock and horror that the other conservatives here hardly ever bother calling him out, and in fact they actually seem to support him whole-heartedly.
Honestly, as much guff as seer gets for being a radical conservative, I don't think he's legitimately as rabid as a lot of people seem to think. He likes to stir things up, and he can be stubborn, but I think some of it is an act. He's certainly not the most extremist person on the forum.
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Originally posted by fm93 View PostI once stumbled upon a left-leaning website that was sharply criticizing (in a satirical manner) a fictional conservative character, and I was annoyed at how they were inventing such a grossly distorted representation of conservatives. "No conservatives are THAT grotesquely narrow-minded and irrational. And even if someone WAS like that, other conservatives have enough concern for fairness to call him/her out. Please be more fair to the people you disagree with," I said. Then I started reading seer's threads in Civics, and I realized to my shock and horror that he's just like the fictional conservative character. I also realized to my shock and horror that the other conservatives here hardly ever bother calling him out, and in fact they actually seem to support him whole-heartedly.I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.
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Originally posted by Adrift View PostNot really sure what this post has to do with the OP
but a lot of what you're seeing is hyperbole and exaggeration.
If you were to sit down for a few hours (or maybe a few days) with some of this board's conservatives, I think you'd find that their views are not as extreme as you think they are. I think the same is probably true going the other way.
Honestly, as much guff as seer gets for being a radical conservative, I don't think he's legitimately as rabid as a lot of people seem to think. He likes to stir things up, and he can be stubborn, but I think some of it is an act. He's certainly not the most extremist person on the forum.
Originally posted by Zymologist View PostThis sort of thing happens pretty regularly around here with the liberals too.Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.--Isaiah 1:17
I don't think that all forms o[f] slavery are inherently immoral.--seer
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Originally posted by fm93 View PostTrue, but there are so many more conservatives on this site than liberals. The sheer numbers factor plays a role in the perception as well.
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Originally posted by Adrift View PostMaybe you just need a change of venue. Reddit, for instance, is radically leftist/libertarian to a nauseating degree. Not at all odd to see people going beyond gay rights advocacy and advocating child porn for pedophiles, praising sex workers as paradigms of feminism, state provision of hard drugs to addicts, serious comparisons of Israelis to Nazis, the total, and in some cases, forcible elimination of all religions and religious belief, and so on. It makes Theologyweb with it's handful of hardcore conservatives look like tame puppies in comparison. As someone who's pretty much an a-political moderate, the hyperbole and real extremism is annoying no matter which side I read.I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.
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