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Originally Posted by roachboy
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maybe you do not explain your positions clearly.
maybe there is a side of you that resents having to explain your positions.
maybe you do to really respond to questions before moving into an attack.
the posts i see of yours here indicate that this might be a pattern of yours---and i do not mean offense by saying this.....
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I don't go into in-depth explanations usually because I don't have time, or feel it's necessary. I will occasionally go more in-depth if asked.
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what i do sometimes see from conservatives, particularly from organized conservatives on campus, is this sense of martyrdom that links in the last analysis to the sense these folk seem to have that they should get better grades, that they should be other than they are somehow...rather than think about whether the problem lay with themselves, it is quicker and easier to blow smoke about a"liberal" conspiracy of one type or another. and it is that kind of response--which you see all the time in print in various outlets in particular--but which you do not see in actual interactions, even with the same people---that gets me a bit impatient, simply as a function of the smugness that seems to underpin it.
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I would make the same statement about liberals OUTSIDE of academic settings. They always want to blame some "vast right-wing conspiracy" for their own personal failings. This comes despite all evidence to the contrary. Despite the huge pro-dem/pro-liberal leaning in most media sources, a majority of the people reject the majority of liberal beliefs/policy. And instead of examining the validity of their beliefs, they seek to belittle the opposition.
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you assume that your views are above question because they are your views.
but you are moving through a phase, like any other college student, during which you are trying out ideas, trying out positions, big parts of which you are repeating from elsewhere, working through them as you do so.
so what makes you so sure that it is everyone else who is wrong when they ask you questions you do not answer, and that none of the problem lay with yourself?
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It doesn't seem as if you really read my post. I stated that conservative views aren't even allowed to be defended, not that they are inherently correct. At least in my experience, if you try to expouse conservative views in some classes they are immediately dismissed.
And I find I find your statements about me "moving through a phase" to be highly arrogant, condecending, and insulting. Especially where you assume that I am just "repeating from elsewhere" my ideas. That is exactly the type of liberal thinking that is wrong on college campuses. Personally, at my university I see more unquestioned beliefs coming from liberal sources. It is a blind spewing of liberal dogma, regurgitated to the student body. There is no questioning, or seeking. It is professors who have apparently solved all the world's problems while never leaving a 2x2 square mile block of campus.