Raishann
13-09-2004, 17:30
I saw some comments in another thread that were just mind-boggling in the attitude they revealed.
What I find really funny about remarks made by liberals like "All Bush supporters are inbred rednecks" is that these are the same people who claim to be socially progressive and in support of social policies that eliminate discrimination and stereotyping. In fact, THIS comment was made in a thread alleging discrimination against Kerry supporters--and this was the response? What's up with that? Is that how you get higher moral ground? I don't think so.
So it's not OK to stereotype minorities and so on, but it's OK to stereotype Bush supporters or Southerners? How, ethically, can that even be justified?
An even worse comment came from someone saying they would like to kill a Bush supporter, in their anger over that same incident. This, coming from someone who very likely adheres to an anti-war, anti-capital-punishment (and possibly even pacifistic) platform? So it's not okay to kill convicted criminals, but it's okay to kill Americans whose beliefs you don't like? There's a bit of an inconsistency there! And it's ironic considering this person was angry over an alleged act of discrimination against Kerry supporters...so does that mean they support returning discrimination for discrimination (and even worse)?
The reason for the thread title is that if the liberals are not careful, they run the risk of perpetuating a society that, underneath a mask of false equality, is in fact one where "some animals are more equal than others". I'm not implying that even a majority of liberals necessarily want this, but if they are not vigilant about where their principles lead, it could indeed create that sort of scenario. Comments like the ones I've just posted (and no doubt I could find countless more) are a disturbing precursor to that sort of thing.
To sum up, if you are going to espouse a principle like anti-discrimination, you have to apply it to everyone, not just the people you happen to like, or else you do the very thing you fear.
What I find really funny about remarks made by liberals like "All Bush supporters are inbred rednecks" is that these are the same people who claim to be socially progressive and in support of social policies that eliminate discrimination and stereotyping. In fact, THIS comment was made in a thread alleging discrimination against Kerry supporters--and this was the response? What's up with that? Is that how you get higher moral ground? I don't think so.
So it's not OK to stereotype minorities and so on, but it's OK to stereotype Bush supporters or Southerners? How, ethically, can that even be justified?
An even worse comment came from someone saying they would like to kill a Bush supporter, in their anger over that same incident. This, coming from someone who very likely adheres to an anti-war, anti-capital-punishment (and possibly even pacifistic) platform? So it's not okay to kill convicted criminals, but it's okay to kill Americans whose beliefs you don't like? There's a bit of an inconsistency there! And it's ironic considering this person was angry over an alleged act of discrimination against Kerry supporters...so does that mean they support returning discrimination for discrimination (and even worse)?
The reason for the thread title is that if the liberals are not careful, they run the risk of perpetuating a society that, underneath a mask of false equality, is in fact one where "some animals are more equal than others". I'm not implying that even a majority of liberals necessarily want this, but if they are not vigilant about where their principles lead, it could indeed create that sort of scenario. Comments like the ones I've just posted (and no doubt I could find countless more) are a disturbing precursor to that sort of thing.
To sum up, if you are going to espouse a principle like anti-discrimination, you have to apply it to everyone, not just the people you happen to like, or else you do the very thing you fear.