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Exactly. Pretending there are two sides to this question is almost a paradigm example of what is wrong with American thought.
But if one candidate says we should exterminate the Jews, and the other candidate says we should NOT exterminate the Jews, they both deserve equal mindspace!
I contend that this is yet more evidence that college education needs radical reformation. The best way to reform college: competition. Why not have a "free", government funded post secondary education that is online only and is standardized across the entire country. The standardized course content is created by the leading experts in all relevant subjects. Testing of students is on standardized exams only. The cost…
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Weird, since typically the issue is seen in reverse where leftist views don't hold up to statistics and logic. Check out some of Ben Shapiro's talks, or Crowder's 'Change my mind' series
Ah, yes. Let's review a few classic "leftist" views, and see if they hold up: 1. Single payer healthcare is both more effective and cheaper than the for-profit model we have now. [1] 2. Climate change is both actually happening and is largely caused by human activity. [I really hope I don't need to cite this...] 3. Gun control tends to lower gun violence. [2] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/upshot/why-single-p…
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There's no intellectual argument to refute. Just the conservative trope "my opinions are being oppressed!" then when you ask about their conservative principles it basically boils down to justifying their racism/sexism or their own bigotry.
Oh, I can give you examples. Here is one: the natural hair movement, good or bad? A liberal view is on favor of it, as straightening ones hair can be seen as trying to ape European hair type, and popularizing it as glamarous demeans people with naturally kinky hair forcing them to change to an unnatural state. A conservative view holds that hair straightening is ok, as that is the culture which we grew up in, and to…
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Ok I’ll bite. Another unsubstantiated conservative canard: taxes are bad. When in fact highly redistributive polices are correlated with all-boats-rising economic tides. “But who cares if we are all worse off, taxes are theft,” whines the conservative. Cry me a river, it was always already the government’s money.
> “But who cares if we are all worse off, taxes are theft,” whines the conservative You're proving my point. This is a fringe conservative position (conservatives are okay with taxes for critical infrastructure, national defense, some minimal social safety net, etc), but you're using that brush to paint all conservatives. Sadly, portraying moderates as extremists has become a goto debate tactic for the left wing, and…
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This comment right here is proof of why we need to embrace viewpoint diversity. You’ve caricatureized any opposing argument inside your own head to the point where anyone who disagrees with you must be a scumbag. You can think BLM is a broken movement and still support equal rights, for example.
"You can think BLM is a broken movement" I've read what conservatives write about BLM. Saying they call it a "broken movement" is the understatement and mischaracterization of the century. It's racism, pure and simple. If you are a racist, you're a scumbag, full stop.
The vast majority of people who criticize BLM or any other leftist issue are not racists. They are people who see problems with a movement that has good intentions and terrible execution. Thats pretty much the standard conservative criticism of liberal politics: Good intentions, horrible execution that lots of times backfires.
You need to realize that for the most part everyone wants the same things. We just disagree about how to get there.
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Weird, since typically the issue is seen in reverse where leftist views don't hold up to statistics and logic. Check out some of Ben Shapiro's talks, or Crowder's 'Change my mind' series
Ah, yes. Let's review a few classic "leftist" views, and see if they hold up: 1. Single payer healthcare is both more effective and cheaper than the for-profit model we have now. [1] 2. Climate change is both actually happening and is largely caused by human activity. [I really hope I don't need to cite this...] 3. Gun control tends to lower gun violence. [2] [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/upshot/why-single-p…
Enjoy your bubble!
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The topics discussed are about as political as “slavery is wrong.” Edit-Just to add a quote, the author describes the following as being liberally “lopsided.” “The conference would touch on such progressive topics as liberation spaces on campus, Black Lives Matter and justice for women as well as for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and allied people.” This has no place on HN, as it’s cle…
“Slavery is wrong” is intensely political, even if mostly non-controversial.
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> “But who cares if we are all worse off, taxes are theft,” whines the conservative You're proving my point. This is a fringe conservative position (conservatives are okay with taxes for critical infrastructure, national defense, some minimal social safety net, etc), but you're using that brush to paint all conservatives. Sadly, portraying moderates as extremists has become a goto debate tactic for the left wing, and…
You can't say that and keep Grover Norquist as a standard-bearer and treat "starve the beast" as a legitimate governing philosophy...
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> “But who cares if we are all worse off, taxes are theft,” whines the conservative You're proving my point. This is a fringe conservative position (conservatives are okay with taxes for critical infrastructure, national defense, some minimal social safety net, etc), but you're using that brush to paint all conservatives. Sadly, portraying moderates as extremists has become a goto debate tactic for the left wing, and…
You can't say that and keep Grover Norquist as a standard-bearer and treat "starve the beast" as a legitimate governing philosophy...
You seem to be willing to lump all conservatives together, but not willing to listen at all...