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Originally Posted by 2OutsNoProb
Pretty simple. Your assertion is that leftist insanity is equal to right-wing insanity. I disagree. I gave you an example of RWNJ commenting craziness - the outrage over SSM legalization 3 months ago - and asserted that it is way worse than any perceived outrage over the woman-walking-in-Manhattan video.
You also must live on a different planet than I do. The street-walking thing came and went so quick that I doubt few people even remember it. I doubt anyone intelligent considers it some horrendously offensive example of mistreatment of women in inner cities.
So if...
Liberalism can be reduced down to - those who want change
Conservatism can be reduced down to - those who do not want change
The ideologies become "ridiculous" in the case of conservatives when they refuse to give in to change where it is clear a change should come. Liberals become "ridiculous" when they ask me to care about, or change my behavior over something silly such as "woman-walking-in-NYC"
I think we can probably agree on this. (I hope)
There are a finite # of issues that conservatives can cling too and an near infinite # of nonsense liberals can complain about; much of which I agree will not gain too much traction or will be replaced by a new hot topic the next day. To put it another way, there are a gazillion mini-incidents that liberals can complain is racist, sexist, etc-ist that to any reasonable person, clearly is not racist, sexist, etc-ist.
Does
1)Obama inviting the clock kid to the White House,
2) or giving a speech on how we need to fix the wage gap,
3) the woman walking in nyc, EVERYTHING the Huffington Post writes about, 4)some liberals are now insisting we refer people who are not transexuals as: sisexuals...
....do all of these little things add up and equalize the much more limited annoying conservative talking points; which are basically no SSM, go to Church, and a moronic display of cultural ignorance here and there.
I believe the answer is 100% yes, and I say this as an atheist! If we continue to disagree there is much more we can do about it, as how "ridiculous" we find something is rather subjective. However, I have found that in the last few years I have shooken off nearly all of the Cultural-Marxisism shoved down by throat by my liberal-biased University, and I am likely finding many liberal talking points more absurd than most Americans.