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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
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Just so I understand. So, when we hear liberals saying disrespectful, disgusting, condescending, perhaps violent things, the rule is that we MUST give them the benefit of the doubt that what they are saying is really some form of irony...and that that irony is playing off of the "very real, non-ironic" things that conservatives say.
Got it. I will adjust my rule book accordingly to include this new one. Thanks.
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No, we're probably a great deal more guilty of the crime of condescension than anyone on the right. I myself am guilty of it more often than I'd like to admit. We've even been known to be quite disrespectful, despite our care-about-everyone philosophy. That's not the issue, though. The thread is about there being violence in the discourse, even going so far as to call for violence in so many words.
In the video above, the people are jokingly mimicking the Tea Party. Is it condescending? Yes? Is it disrespectful? I suppose so. Very rarely, if ever, will you go to a protest by progressives and run into a legitimate racist, though. I say that speaking for direct experience. The guy above was clearly making fun of the Tea Party, as they're an easy target to lampoon. What he's saying would basically contradict his reason for protesting the Koch brothers. Based on that, it seems fair to conclude that he's not being serious.
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Originally Posted by dogzilla
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In 1972, my parents were in their late teens. Let's try to keep the intellectual dishonesty to a minimum so we don't get too far off track.