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So I googled "why are liberals so stupid" 1
#21824824 - 06/18/15 06:06 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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after reading the church shooting thread. I found this.
http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2011/08/23/7_reasons_why_liberals_are_incapable_of_understanding_the_world/page/full
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Even liberals who've accomplished a lot in their lives and have high IQs often say things on a regular basis that are stunningly, profoundly stupid and at odds with the way the world works. Modern liberalism has become so bereft of common sense and instinctually suicidal that America can only survive over the long haul by thwarting the liberal agenda. In fact, liberalism has become such a toxic and poisonous philosophy that most liberals wouldn't behave differently if their goal were to deliberately destroy the country. So, how does liberalism cause well-meaning, intelligent liberals to get this way? Well, it starts with...
1) Liberalism creates a feedback loop. It is usually impossible for a non-liberal to change a liberal's mind about political issues because liberalism works like so: only liberals are credible sources of information. How do you know someone's liberal? He espouses liberal doctrine. So, no matter how plausible what you say may be, it will be ignored if you're not a liberal and if you are a liberal, of course, you probably agree with liberal views. This sort of close-mindedness makes liberals nearly impervious to any information that might undermine their beliefs.
2) Liberals sources of information are ever present. Conservatives are regularly exposed to the liberal viewpoint whether they want to be or not. That's not necessarily so for liberals. Imagine the average day for liberals. They get up and read their local newspaper. It has a liberal viewpoint. They take their kids to school, where the teachers are liberal. Then they go to work, listen to NPR which has a liberal viewpoint on the way home, and then turn on the nightly news which also skews leftward. From there, they turn on TV and watch shows created by liberals that lean to the left, if they have any political viewpoint at all. Unless liberals actively seek out conservative viewpoints, which is unlikely, the only conservative arguments they're probably going to hear are going to be through the heavily distorted, poorly translated, deeply skeptical lens of other liberals.
3) Liberals emphasize feeling superior, not superior results. Liberalism is all about appearances, not outcomes. What matters to liberals is how a program makes them FEEL about themselves, not whether it works or not. Thus a program like Headstart, which sounds good because it's designed to help children read, makes liberals feel good about themselves, even though the program doesn't work and wastes billions. A ban on DDT makes liberals feel good about themselves because they're "protecting the environment" even though millions of people have died as a result. For liberals, it's not what a program does in the real world; it's about whether they feel better about themselves for supporting it.
4) Liberals are big believers in moral relativism. This spins them round and round because if the only thing that's wrong is saying that there's an absolute moral code, then you lose your ability to tell cause from effect, good from bad, and right from wrong. Taking being non-judgmental to the level that liberals do leaves them paralyzed, pondering "why they hate us" because they feel incapable of saying, “That's wrong," and doing something about it. If you're against firm standards and condemning immoral behavior, then your moral compass won’t work and you’ll also be for immorality, as well as societal and cultural decay by default.
5) Liberals tend to view people as parts of groups, not individuals. One of the prejudices of liberalism is that they see everyone as part of a group, not as an individual. This can lead to rather bizarre disparities when say, a man from a group that they consider to be powerless, impoverished victims becomes the leader of the free world -- and he's challenged by a group of lower middle class white people who've banded together because individually they're powerless. If you listen to the liberal rhetoric, you might think Barack Obama was a black Republican being surrounded by a KKK lynching party 100 years ago -- as opposed to the single most powerful man in America abusing the authority of his office to attack ordinary Tea Partiers who have the audacity to speak the truth to power for the good of their country.
6) Liberals take a dim view of personal responsibility. Who's at fault if a criminal commits a crime? The criminal or society? If someone creates a business and becomes a millionaire, is that the result of hard work and talent or luck? If you're dirt poor, starving, and haven't worked in 5 years, is that a personal failing or a failure of the state? Conservatives would tend to say the former in each case, while liberals would tend to say the latter. But when you disconnect what an individual does from the results that happen in his life, it's very difficult to understand cause and effect in people's lives.
7) Liberals give themselves far too much credit just for being liberal. To many liberals, all one needs to do to be wise, intelligent, compassionate, open minded, and sensitive is to BE LIBERAL. In other words, many of the good things about a person spring not from his actions, but from the ideology he holds. This has an obvious appeal. You can be a diehard misogynist, but plausibly call yourself a feminist, hate blacks, but accuse others of racism, have a subpar IQ and be an intellectual, give nothing to charity and be compassionate, etc., etc., and all you have to do is call yourself a liberal. It's a shortcut to virtue much like the corrupt old idea of religious indulgences. Why live a life of virtue when you could live a sinful life and buy your way into heaven? If you're a liberal, why actually live a life of virtue when you can merely call yourself a liberal and get credit for being virtuous, even when you've done nothing to earn it?
I agree 100% with the article. I'm not a republican. Discuss intelligently.
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Re: So I googled "why are liberals so stupid" [Re: luvdemboomers] 1
#21824834 - 06/18/15 06:09 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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they're all dum
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Re: So I googled "why are liberals so stupid" [Re: luvdemboomers] 1
#21824836 - 06/18/15 06:09 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Republicans aren't conservative either
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Re: So I googled "why are liberals so stupid" [Re: luvdemboomers]
#21824842 - 06/18/15 06:11 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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And the counter point to this argument:
Mississippi.
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Re: So I googled "why are liberals so stupid" [Re: luvdemboomers]
#21824845 - 06/18/15 06:11 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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penn'd by a tea partier
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Re: So I googled "why are liberals so stupid" [Re: zappaisgod]
#21824846 - 06/18/15 06:11 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm going to read this when I am less tired.
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Re: So I googled "why are liberals so stupid" [Re: memes]
#21824850 - 06/18/15 06:13 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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memes said: penn'd by a tea partier
They just want their country back (from you know who. The guy in SC does)
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Re: So I googled "why are liberals so stupid" [Re: koods]
#21824852 - 06/18/15 06:13 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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koods said: And the counter point to this argument:
Mississippi.
No that's Reason #8
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Re: So I googled "why are liberals so stupid" [Re: koods]
#21824871 - 06/18/15 06:18 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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koods said: And the counter point to this argument:
Mississippi.
Do they not watch the same TV and read the same newspapers? The guy is right that you have to go out of your way and make an effort to be exposed to conservative thought. Liberals live in an intellectually incestuous bubble chamber. He is also right that they deny individualism and personal responsibility.
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Re: So I googled "why are liberals so stupid" [Re: D.M.T]
#21824876 - 06/18/15 06:19 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Millions of people have died from the ban on DDT?
That's the best thing abut conservatives. They just make up facts on the fly.
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Re: So I googled "why are liberals so stupid" [Re: zappaisgod]
#21824886 - 06/18/15 06:22 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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zappaisgod said:
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koods said: And the counter point to this argument:
Mississippi.
Do they not watch the same TV and read the same newspapers? The guy is right that you have to go out of your way and make an effort to be exposed to conservative thought. Liberals live in an intellectually incestuous bubble chamber. He is also right that they deny individualism and personal responsibility.
u guys sound like ur talking about religions
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Re: So I googled "why are liberals so stupid" [Re: koods]
#21824895 - 06/18/15 06:23 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Liberals tend to view people as parts of groups, not individuals. One of the prejudices of liberalism is that they see everyone as part of a group, not as an individual.
I want to hear more sweeping statements from the guy who doesn't see people as groups.
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Re: So I googled "why are liberals so stupid" [Re: koods]
#21824901 - 06/18/15 06:24 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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koods said: Millions of people have died from the ban on DDT?
That's the best thing abut conservatives. They just make up facts on the fly.
ORLY? Malaria was almost eliminated in Africa until it was banned
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1259
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The triumph occurred in the middle part of the 20th century, when the larger part of mankind finally succeeded in overcoming the ravages of malaria, the deadly infectious disease that had afflicted the human race since the dawn of time (and which, by one estimate, had killed approximately half the people who had ever lived on earth). But within three decades, the triumph would give way to tragedy when leftist ideologues, professing concern for the integrity of the natural environment, collaborated to ban the use of the pesticide best known by the acronym DDT—the very substance that had made it possible to vanquish malaria from vast portions of the globe. By means of that ban, environmentalists effectively ensured that, over the course of the ensuing 30+ years, more than 50 million people would die needlessly of a disease that was entirely preventable.
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Re: So I googled "why are liberals so stupid" [Re: koods]
#21824905 - 06/18/15 06:24 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah there's not a fact in that article. Conservatives are so dumb they will accept something they read as true purely on faith. ANYTHING APPARENTLY
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Re: So I googled "why are liberals so stupid" [Re: zZZz] 1
#21824909 - 06/18/15 06:25 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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zZZz said:
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zappaisgod said:
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koods said: And the counter point to this argument:
Mississippi.
Do they not watch the same TV and read the same newspapers? The guy is right that you have to go out of your way and make an effort to be exposed to conservative thought. Liberals live in an intellectually incestuous bubble chamber. He is also right that they deny individualism and personal responsibility.
u guys sound like ur talking about religions
Liberalism is a religion. It is faith based and irrational.
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ddt is fucking poison. It was killing things other than mosquitos. Besides what are you gonna do, get rid of every mosquito in Africa? Get real
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Oh really. DDT isn't banned for use in most malaria infested countries. Doesn't really matter anyhow, because mosquitos in areas where DDT was heavily used are now resistant to it.
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Re: So I googled "why are liberals so stupid" [Re: koods] 1
#21824927 - 06/18/15 06:28 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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koods said:
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Liberals tend to view people as parts of groups, not individuals. One of the prejudices of liberalism is that they see everyone as part of a group, not as an individual.
I want to hear more sweeping statements from the guy who doesn't see people as groups.
His take on liberals is exactly right. They are stupid individuals with a hive mind.
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thebitterbuffalo26 said: Yeah there's not a fact in that article. Conservatives are so dumb they will accept something they read as true purely on faith. ANYTHING APPARENTLY
Purely faith? How about a lifetime of arguing with liberals and getting no where? You can present facts with valid sources to a liberal and they will deny it and argue anyways. You can't rationalize with irrational people.
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Re: So I googled "why are liberals so stupid" [Re: zappaisgod]
#21824946 - 06/18/15 06:32 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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zappaisgod said:
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zZZz said:
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zappaisgod said:
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koods said: And the counter point to this argument:
Mississippi.
Do they not watch the same TV and read the same newspapers? The guy is right that you have to go out of your way and make an effort to be exposed to conservative thought. Liberals live in an intellectually incestuous bubble chamber. He is also right that they deny individualism and personal responsibility.
u guys sound like ur talking about religions
Liberalism is a religion. It is faith based and irrational.
as is all politics
u put ur faith on the president, duke, queen, wutever. they are ur god. or are u like the satanists of politics and do u mock ur god?
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