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Poll: Have you always or nearly always lived in the same place you grew up and, if so, do you identify as politically conservative?
This poll is closed.
Yes but I'm pretty liberal/progressive politically.
20.00%
7 20.00%
Yes but I'm more centrist or unallied politically.
11.43%
4 11.43%
Yes and I do lean toward conservative politically.
5.71%
2 5.71%
No but I do identify as conservative politically.
0%
0 0%
No but I'm more centrist or unallied politically.
14.29%
5 14.29%
No and I am pretty liberal/progressive politically.
48.57%
17 48.57%
Total 35 vote(s) 100%
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Have you ever lived anywhere else besides where you live now?
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RE: Have you ever lived anywhere else besides where you live now?
(June 29, 2017 at 7:01 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: The fact that the three conservatives on here are pretty much a step above trolls, and are here for the name calling (as you point out) just shows that there is no real conservative thought be discussed here.  The problem with saying 'I'll be nice to everybody except for racists and sexists" is that for some people the definition of those words have been expanded to such a degree that it's easy to paint anybody you don't like as a racist or sexist. I mean some people say all Trump voters are racist or sexist by default (10% of Hispanic women voted for Trump). That means that you can never have a conversation with one to find out what they actually believe because they are automatically in the category that you won't talk to.

You'd think that open minded progressives could have a conversation with someone they disagree with.

Well, my definitions of "racist" and "sexist" are pretty much standard issue. I've never said anything about "all" Trump voters, except that they served us up a shit sandwich -- I've certainly not made personal attacks out of whole cloth -- so I'm not sure how your reply is relevant to mine at all.

People are free to be as racist or as sexist as they want here, it seems to me ... so long as they can take the heat.

Conservatives can grow a pair and hang around, or they can search out their safe spaces -- it doesn't matter much to me either way, because I don't value the political content here much anyway.

And by the by, I've had plenty of good conversations with people here with whom I disagree, not because I toe the line, but because I deliver decent conversation.

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RE: Have you ever lived anywhere else besides where you live now? - by Thumpalumpacus - June 29, 2017 at 7:11 pm

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