for fun... my issues with the column.
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Charges of white privilege make it sound as if every Caucasian is automatically successful. The fact is most are not. Few are born with silver spoons in their mouths. The vast majority needs to work hard to achieve the objectives they desire.
I've literally never heard anyone make this claim. Absolute no liberal (pretty sure no one anywhere at anytime) has every said every caucasian is automatically successful. Its not a good sign when he starts off with such a whopper of a strawman.
It also makes you question what his point is. Yes... everyone has to work hard. The people who acknowledge "white privilidge" are simply saying imagine how much harder you'd have to work if you didn't face discrimination.
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Liberals do not seem to recognize the special treatment they receive. They actually believe they are nicer and smarter than others as a result of having been allowed to get away with this conceit.
It would be helpful if the author actually laid out what the "liberal privilege" is. A lot of this kind of poor partisan rantings fail to be specific. When you actually have to define something it becomes much to easy to dismiss. I would be curious what the author would say I received via this privilidge that I wouldn't have received if I was a Republican? I mean - I have never received an apartment or a job on the basis of my political beliefs. They have never been discussed in this realm. He's not actually saying anything.
Where is the proof that liberals think they are nicer then others? And who are the others? I've commonly acknowledged that Mormons seem like some of the nicest people I've met? Are they liberals? What is this based on?
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Liberals, because they are liberal, assume they are more compassionate than anyone who disagrees with them.
Again... this is based on what? Is there some polling that indicates that liberals think they are more compassionate then Conservatives think they are?
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From elementary school on, they are praised for their concerns about the welfare of others — even though this kindness is only manifested in verbal declarations.
Who identified as a liberal or conservative in elementary school?!??! WTF is this guy talking about? And yes... probably most kids in elementary school only demonstrate kindness through verbal declarations... that's the thing about most elementary kids... they don't have money or control how they spend their time. Who reads this and doesn't laugh at this part?
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Likewise, from the earliest grades, their teachers applaud their superior intelligence.
Its funny how he says this like its a bad thing that some child would be applauded for their intelligence. A good conservative will never be applauded for their intelligence?!?!
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Since they agree with the principles they are being taught and regurgitate them on cue, they are regarded as unusually perceptive. Critical thinking, although orally encouraged, is, in practice, punished.
So the dumb liberals in elementary school aren't challenging the rules of math and science like a good conservative?! I'd also like to know what the proof where critical thinking isn't encouraged. If a kid doesn't renounce addition then he's not being critical? If he doesn't reject the science of gravity he's "just regurgitating on cue?"
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And so liberals grow up in a bubble of self-deception. Their self-esteem is grounded in conforming to beliefs that do not accord with reality, but which nevertheless earn them gold stars and certificates of achievement.
Is this a reference to evolution? A kid gets through school and gets As in Reading, Writing and Arithmatic and now he's "in a bubble of self-deception." Once again we're never discussing the alternative here. Let's keep in mind that conservatives go through the same schools, can get the same grades... but they're not living in a bubble of self-deception? What in the world could he possibly be basing this on? Who, besides Cerveza, finds this compelling?
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The books they read and the television shows they watch confirm their special status. Liberal newsreaders and authors assure them they are better than their conservative peers. Clearly, they are more generous and insightful than these relics.
Let's pretend that this is correct. What's the point? Conservatives make best sellers out of books that call liberals treasonous, "If the Liberals Had any Brains they'd be Republicans", etc. Fox News doesn't regularly assure their viewers that they are superiour to liberals? They regularly use liberal as a slur. Even if this was entirely true about liberals it would make liberals no different then conservatives.
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If liberals decide to enter politics, the effusive praise is ladled on with a bucket. They quickly learn being liberal means they never have to say they are sorry. Whatever mistakes they make will be blamed on their opponents. That they have good intensions is sufficient to merit adulation, no matter what the outcomes.
Again... this is another one of those things that's silly to be partisan about. Wouldn't it be accurate to say most politicians are unlikely to apologize? That they constantly blame the other side even for things that are their own fault? Again, the writer is a kettle calling the pot black.
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If one is a liberal, any nasty thing one might say about an opponent is passed over in silence. The cruelest invective is regarded as appropriate, given the sins of the target. Even vulgarity is excused because it emphasizes the understandable passion of the speaker.
This is easily the most laughable. Has that professor somehow remained completely deaf to RW radio? Has he never heard of Ann Coulter? This guy is literally (as another stated) taking the worst characteristics of his party and pretending that its all on the other side.
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If one is a liberal, lies are accepted as essential to promoting benevolent causes.
same as above. Any montage from the Daily Show demonstrates this beautifully.
It would be interesting to see some substative critiques of liberal ideas. But this pablum has the opposite of its intended effect, imo, that it just makes the people posting it look like they're wildly projecting (or just masters of cognitive dissonance)