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In reply to the discussion: What I've learned about conservatives in the last few months [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Upon seeing your avatar, has a Sharks fan ever expressed the sentiment that they would love it if you were abducted, raped, beaten, and left for dead in an alleyway somewhere? Have they? have you ever come across that in your journeys, someone who admires another sports team wishing you gratuitous physical harm, possibly even once they find out you kind-of like the Jets?
Because I've gotten it pretty regularly from conservatives.
We're not talking about "team mentality" here, friend, and yours is one of the arguments that I consider sorely mistaken. It's not two geeks arguing over who would win in a fight between The Hulk and Wolverine. it's not sports fans calling each other dumb for liking the other team. It's not two tribes separated by a lake.
It's about some people who want to cause harm to others in order to gain pleasure for themselves. You want to throw Ms. Coulter's book at me? Fine, but I suggest you fucking read it first. Have you ever read any of her books? I've borrowed "Treason," "How to Talk to a Liberal" and "Godless" from the library, as part of my effort to learn about the people who I once thought were just "on the other side of the lake."
They're paeans to one woman's absolute, savage hatred of everything and everyone she considers "liberal." And she is conservative mainstream.
if you're content to just stroll around patting yourself on the back about how enlightened you are, more power to you. Maybe you could do me a favor; take that enlightenment, show it to a lot of conservatives, and get them to change their minds. I'm sure it'll work for you.