Just for the record, her "suggestions" on being forced on our childrenWhat's that got to do with perks? And guess what? I think an additional perk is for her to make suggestions ("tell us" in your mind) on how to have healthier lives. That's any and all First Ladies.
That's a terrible article.
The author utilizes perhaps the most common informal fallacy by generalizing conservatives based on one picture, which is highly subjective in itself, and a handful of responses, three, to that picture.
I found out it hardly worth reading past the authors statement regarding George Will's response. This,
is more a statement of arrogance by the writer of the article. I would ask her to please do provide a lengthy essay on Will's statement. An essay about reading more into a person's thoughts and the fallacy of projection would be interesting when written by the person doing said thing.
The rest of the article was pointless emotional appeal given that the beginning of the article failed to put forth a valid argument.
I'm reminded of the social activism when the stories of Trayvon Martin and Shaima Alawadi first became popular. People across the country and in other parts of the world joined the "Hoodies and Hijabs" activist campaign. Of course, the complete media [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] up of the Trayvon Martin case gave us useless dialogues about race relations and Shaima Alawadi? Her husban was convicted recently for her murder. The activist crowd essentially shrugged their shoulders and walked away with the smug self importance I feel the author of the article possesses by throwing up an easy target that makes it's living inviting controversy, Ann Coulter, and failing to paint how her actions are representative of an entire group of people.
I thank the person who posted the OP for presenting us with another fool blogger to avoid.
I thought this was an excellent statement:
People often complain that we have a tendency to dehumanize and separate from people who are ideologically divergent from us, restricting ourselves to rigid boundaries that never allow us to change our minds and gain new experiences. We throw around words like evil for ideas that are different from ours.
Hash tag campaigns do not work until they do. This campaign was successful. The Nigerian people started this campaign to get their government to do something about finding these girls and that message spread around the world. Failure would have been continued lack of government response, but the opposite occurred, the government increased its efforts and solicited outside help from nations like the United States.Hash tags are annoying. Adults who use them even more so. Probably not a lack of empathy, most likely the sensibility to believe that its fake and dishonest to pretend you care when you actually don't and that hash tags and photo ops don't bring back innocent girls.
A tragedy occurs every day. I won't waste my time hash tagging sympathetic garbage. Its fake. If I can effect good in the strangers around me it is enough. No need to chase ambulances.
It worked in the fact that it made people like Michelle Obama feel good about themselvesHash tag campaigns do not work until they do. This campaign was successful. The Nigerian people started this campaign to get their government to do something about finding these girls and that message spread around the world. Failure would have been continued lack of government response, but the opposite occurred, the government increased its efforts and solicited outside help from nations like the United States.
These girls may be saved or may never be saved. Their safe return is probably the ultimate goal of the families, but that's not what the Twitter campaign was about, it was about getting their government to act. It worked.
You posted before that you smoke. Did you step outside to smoke a cigarette before or after you posted this? You know, cigarettes are maxed out with laced chemicals.
I have read the intentions of the author differently then you. KCW wants to know if conservatives can express empathy. Emotional intelligence on KCW's part leads to a discussion based on the title of her article. Compared to KCW's EI, a few conservative CF members haven't as much tact. Their use of loaded-brushes is evident when they role with the influential mockers and dastardly, not tactfully, mock using phrases such as "Moochelle".
Using an atrocity to mock the First Lady is cowardly.
KCW states she is at a loss with Coulter and her ilk The title of her article makes that clear.
Are conservatives going to hold cowardly conservative mockers accountable for their influence? KCW listed examples of conservatives growing in numbers continuing the mocking. Let's here it from those who won't mock.
You're right, of course. I know I don't like it when liberals are treated like that. Criticism should be directed at the particular parties who do indulge in such behavior as noted in the OP.I don't think it's a good idea to stereotype a whole group of people like conservatives!
I don't think it's a good idea to stereotype a whole group of people like conservatives!
As evidenced in this thread, how many conservatives denounced Coulter and Will?
It is the default position for liberals to define all conservatives as heartless
Ringo84 said:I'm uncomfortable making blanket statements about conservatives, liberals, or any other group.
Joykins said:There does appear to be a certain subset of people who call themselves conservative who seem to take delight in being jerks. On the other hand, I don't think most thoughtful conservatives are really like that.
DaisyDay said:This tends to be true of people in general. I don't know that conservatives are particularly susceptible
Kat said:You know, it really bothers me when liberals say things like this, because by golly when a prolific liberal does/says something wrong and conservatives ask why they aren't denouncing them, you always get, "why should we have to? They don't speak for us" as a response. I seem to recall getting that response when I asked why the left accuses conservatives of "waging the war on women", and yet give Bill Maher a free pass when he called Sarah Palin a foul, sexist name. Everyone was like, "I don't even watch Maher, so what difference does it make?"
Coulter doesn't speak for me, as a conservative. I have my own thoughts and my own voice. I'm not a fan of Coulter. What else can be said?
RingoWhen Democrats speak of a "war on women", they don't mean opposition to abortion or single mothers, but enacting policies that target and (perhaps in some cases, unintentionally) hurt women.
Abortion is a great example. I find most of the arguments against abortion to be persuasive and do not like the practice any more than you do. If I got a woman pregnant and later found that she had had an abortion, it would upset me to know that my progeny was never born.
However, if a woman must have an abortion, I would prefer that they have it in a clean, reasonably regulated clinic overseen by an accredited doctor. The alternative is women hurting or even killing themselves through the use of cheap, unregulated abortion medication from Mexico or using unsanitary and non-medical procedures to induce an abortion.
This is what politicians who work so hard to close abortion clinics don't seem to understand: they're winning the battle but not the war. They think that if they simply regulate abortion clinics out of existence, the practice of abortion will simply vanish (this is where I part company with the so-called "pro-lifers"). But If you make it harder for a woman to receive the medical care that she needs, you only drive her to dangerous, unregulated methods that could seriously endanger her health. THAT is waging a war on women.
I don't think your statement about Bill Maher is true:You know, it really bothers me when liberals say things like this, because by golly when a prolific liberal does/says something wrong and conservatives ask why they aren't denouncing them, you always get, "why should we have to? They don't speak for us" as a response. I seem to recall getting that response when I asked why the left accuses conservatives of "waging the war on women", and yet give Bill Maher a free pass when he called Sarah Palin a foul, sexist name. Everyone was like, "I don't even watch Maher, so what difference does it make?"
Coulter doesn't speak for me, as a conservative. I have my own thoughts and my own voice. I'm not a fan of Coulter. What else can be said?
It's an exercise in a common logical fallacy. A rather pathetic one as well.
Another form of this exercise I often see on web forums is the argument that black people are more violent and more prone to criminal behavior. Racists especially will take the actions of a minority of a population and use it to paint that large brush across the majority. The sad thing is that those racists can pull out reams of data to attempt to support their argument.
KCW uses one example and the comments of three people on that one example and attempts to describe millions based on it. That's just stupid.
As to the OP and its author......poor job so far. Talk about using a tragedy to push your own political view for the sake of you political view......