Why are many conservatives still afraid to speak up for being called bad names?

[Sparagmos]

You are right that only one side threw the first stone, but besides that point people saying that doesn't really offend me nor I disagree with it.

When and where was that first stone thrown?

 

[Markstrimaran]

Okay, so then God understood it was sin and wasn't desirable to him, but it's been predestined to happen at this specific point in life anyway.
At least God could have allowed me to be born before all this so today I would be over 55 and already have lived a full life here without it being disrupted, but no.
Then also what's the point of campaigning to change things like abortion legislation?
I don't really feel that excited about the traditional Christian vision of heaven, I don't want it to come off as disrespectful but that's what I think.

Well in 1949 Israel became a nation.
1967 Muslim attempt to conquer
1973 Muslim attempt to conquer
1983 Jimmy Carter peace plan
1995? Bill Clinton's peace plan
1999 The left behind books series.

The saga has been going on for 71 years. It has started revivals in 1968 1976 1984. As of recently in this century their has been a huge falling away, of the body of Christ.
So sad but again more fulfillment of biblical prophecy.

 

[grasping the after wind]

This is particularly curious given that most of these same people have no problem in bullying or using bad names when speaking of moderates or leftists.

Could you provide examples of bullying of leftists by conservatives?

 

[grasping the after wind]

Many people that are considered conservative are actually just the non leftists you referred to. those people are not motivated by politics. Unlike leftist who live and breath politics 24/7 and whose whole self image and idea of their self worth depends upon their political beliefs, these people get their self worth from what they themselves do and just wish to be left alone as much a s possible by an increasingly micro managing government. Their inclination is to flee not to fight. Thia is why they move from California or New York to places where they hope to find they will find less intrusion into their personal lives by the smothering maternalism of the left.

 

[JackRT]

maternalism Many people that are considered conservative are actually just the non leftists you referred to. those people are not motivated by politics. Unlike leftist who live and breath politics 24/7 and whose whole self image and idea of their self worth depends upon their political beliefs, these people get their self worth from what they themselves do and just wish to be left alone as much a s possible by an increasingly micro managing government. Their inclination is to flee not to fight. Thia is why they move from California or New York to places where they hope to find they will find less intrusion into their personal lives by the smothering maternalism of the left.

You have a very strange and very wrong idea of the motivations and behaviours of those of us on the left. Have you ever seriously questioned the sources of your opinions?

 

[Albion]

You have a very strange and very wrong idea of the motivations and behaviours of those of us on the left.

He didn't say it was everyone on the Left.

 

[JackRT]

He didn't say it was everyone on the Left.

He was painting with a very broad brush like "smothering materialism of the left".

 

[Albion]

He was painting with a very broad brush like "smothering materialism of the left".

Okay, but your response personalized that observation about leftist politics in general by making it instead be about a "wrong idea of the motivations and behaviours of those of us on the left."

 

[grasping the after wind]

of those of us on the left.

You have a very strange and very wrong idea of the motivations and behaviours of those of us on the left. Have you ever seriously questioned the sources of your opinions?

I am the source of my opinions and I constantly question myself as to whether I am correct or not , its called critical thinking . You might like to try it sometime. . And I'm still waiting for an example of conservatives bullying leftists.

 

[JackRT]

I am the source of my opinions and I constantly question myself as to whether I am correct or not , its called critical thinking .

We are quite alike in that.

You might like to try it sometime.

Nice ad hominem.

And I'm still waiting for an example of conservatives bullying leftists.

You just tried it. Didn't work.

 

[grasping the after wind]

Nice ad hominem.



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Your previous post was an excellent guide.

 

[grasping the after wind]

You just tried it. Didn't work.

Still waiting for a genuine example of conservatives bullying leftists.

 

[Shiloh Raven]

This is particularly curious given that most of these same people have no problem in bullying or using bad names when speaking of moderates or leftists.

Very true. And that's not to mention that they support Donald Trump, who is notoriously known for bullying, mocking and insulting people that he doesn't like (either alive or dead people).

Personally speaking from almost 30 years of experience, I've been called all sorts of unsavory names by conservatives over the years. I've been called a traitor, squaw, liar, godless, Demoncrat, and a few profane names, including what people call a female dog. I've been pushed and kicked. There was one very angry conservative who told me that the entire worth of NDNs could be found at the bottom of a whiskey bottle and that the only good NDN is a dead NDN. I heard "Drunken' Injun" a lot too.

 

[JackRT]

Very true, and that's not to mention that they support Donald Trump, who is notoriously known for bullying, mocking and insulting people that he doesn't like (either alive or dead people).

Personally speaking from almost 30 years of experience, I've been called all sorts of unsavory names by conservatives over the years. I've been called a traitor, squaw, liar, godless, Demoncrat, and a few profane names, including what people call a female dog. I've been pushed and kicked. There was one very angry conservative who told me that the entire worth of NDNs could be found at the bottom of a whiskey bottle and that the only good NDN is a dead NDN. I heard "Drunken' Injun" a lot too.

My personal all time favourite was "Spawn of Satan".

 

[Shiloh Raven]

I haven't heard that one before, but I have heard some conservatives IRL calling liberals evil and insisting liberals can't be true Christians. I've heard this accusation several times over the years.

 

[ArmenianJohn]

It has me worried about the future of the US and western society if even a lot of those on the right or lean conservative have been pacified and bullied into not speaking up out of fear of being called bad names by the opposition.

I even question if conservatives or just non-leftists even want to save their own culture.

Because deep down conservatives know that they're wrong, usually racist or hateful in some way or another, so they are afraid of speaking up because they know they'll get called out and shut down.

 

[JackRT]

I haven't heard that one before, but I have heard some conservatives IRL calling liberals evil and insisting liberals can't be true Christians. I've heard this accusation several times over the years.

I get that on a near daily basis.

 

[W2L]

Because deep down conservatives know that they're wrong, usually racist or hateful in some way or another, so they are afraid of speaking up because they know they'll get called out and shut down.

Your comment is wrong, offensive and terribly contentious.

 

[ThievingMagpie]

I know that many people are offended when some other people try to say "everyone's doing it" or "both sides do it" when, in truth, it is one side that started it and has made it a specialty.

I see one person trying to extend an olive branch in this discussion, and the other saying "it's all the other side's fault" - as a centrist, what am I to infer from this exchange?

 

[Albion]

I see one person trying to extend an olive branch in this discussion, and the other saying "it's all the other side's fault" - as a centrist, what am I to infer from this exchange?

A quick survey of 40 posts doesn't clearly show me the ones you are thinking of. Could you be more specific?