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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
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A perfect example to drive the point of the thread home with. Insults from words taken out of context....
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"Liberal" and "Conservative" can both be used as insults because everyone has their own definitions of the words. From my perspective, there is very little that's "liberal" about the Democrats. For me to call the Democrats "liberal" would be an insult to liberals. Likewise, if I called someone "conservative", I'd be saying that that person likes to restrict freedom and control other people through forceful means. So if I call someone a liberal, it's a compliment. If I call someone a conservative, then yeah, it could be taken as an insult.
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"as a liberal i say that your intent in saying 'liberal' was an insult!"
halp uss jahn karry! teh thaught poleece r comming!
halp uss jahn karry! teh thaught poleece r comming!
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I feel like I'm back in middle school again.
hey you wanna trade your pb&j for my tuna salad?
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Well, I tend not to have a sense of humor when I'm insulted in that way - when my patriotism, my belief in God, and everything else is questioned by people sinply because I don't tow a certain political/theological line. I'm not saying that that's your purpose here, but I've had enough of that and I want it to stop. If that means that I have no sense of humor, then so be it.
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i despise modern liberals for forcing me to vote for the republican party.
To be honest though, i've stopped giving them the pleasure of their loot'd title. Leftist is the proper term for that Frankensteinian Monster of the Democratic party, a reanimated corpse of Classical Liberalism without its rationality, sewn up with Socialism sans its heart.
To be honest though, i've stopped giving them the pleasure of their loot'd title. Leftist is the proper term for that Frankensteinian Monster of the Democratic party, a reanimated corpse of Classical Liberalism without its rationality, sewn up with Socialism sans its heart.
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Well, that's your loss. You could probably learn some things from liberals. And they could learn some things from you. If you're going to use language like that, however, nobody will learn anything from anybody.
Well, I don't know what liberals you're talking about, but I think that most of the liberals here have had perfectly rational debates. Some of the conservatives, on the other hand, choose to continue with generalizations and insults rather than have a reasonable debate about the use of the word 'liberal'.
I don't think you'd know a true socialist if one slapped you in the face. That term has become such a buzz-word to use against one's political foes that nobody probably knows what a true socialist really is.
I mean, seriously. If all you can offer is generalizations and buzz-words, your POV may not be a great as you think it is.
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lol, thats why I see the labor theory of value being promoted by the Leftists, what, 100 years after being throughly demolished? Thats why I see neo-mercantilism in their approach to globalization. Thats why I see minimum wage, possibly the most insidious of all wealth transfers (from unskilled to skilled labor) still being promoted. Thats why they are the party of military slavery, as evidenced by messrs Rangel and Co. Rational, indeed.
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"The lefitsts"? We all think and act alike? Since when?
I can't speak for every liberal, but I can speak for me. If you have a problem with a certain liberal, complain about them. Don't include me in your rants about "the leftists". Don't trample upon my convictions as though I'm some kind of "nut". That's all I ask.
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Go ahead, throw around the word "conservative". That won't shame me at all, unlike you I WILL BE PROUD OF WHAT I AM.
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