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Originally Posted by roachboy
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i dont see how this particularly idiotic idea can function to define the conservative/everybody else distinction. if it can function in this way, it seems to me to legitimate the marginalization of conservativism. this simply because it is an ideology that makes genuinely insane ideas seem reasonable.
if the "problem" with conservatism is that academics tend not to take it seriously--in part (to my mind) because conservatives refuse more often than not to argue effectively for their own positions, preferring instead to use only language directed at an in-group for that in-group---then organizations like this would have to be a sane conservative's worst nightmare. i would think these folk--and i know they exist, i know that not all conservatives are of one mind about guns and so on---would be first in line to oppose groups like these.
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Jesus Christ on a stick. Academics don't tend to take conservatives seriously because such academics have no clue what they are talking about. They live in sheltered isolated environments, often sucking off the government tit, and have no idea how the real world works day to day.
And whats even more amusing is how many Academics think all of their brethren must be liberals as well. While most conservatives do go out into the 'real world' there are more than a few that qualify as academics, and whats interesting is how they can be persecuted if they let their political leanings known to the liberal majority.
Universities are perfect for people like you where you can get kids with pretty much no clue and convince them your own unproven system of government is the correct one. Then they go out and get jobs.
I personally don't think its insane to allow the public as a whole to be armed, so why would I draw the line at a college campus? There is no real evidence that allowing legal concealed carry increases violent crime and I'm too lazy to look it up, but I'm pretty sure it decreases it.
I suppose thats the difference between conservatives and liberals in this country. Liberals base their beliefs on what they think SHOULD work in theory, conservatives base it on what does based on human nature.
Really when sororities and fraternity are on your list of retro-organizations that should be banned, without explanation on your part I might add, it makes you look more like someone with a personal agenda than the thinking intellectual you try to come across as.