(January 25, 2017 at 2:06 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: I don't care what jackasses are on the left. There are plenty of douches in every camp.
I am a liberal because I believe the government has a responsibility to protect the marginalized and prevent a tyrrany of the majority. I believe in evening the playing field and not allowing the rich to hold government hostage or having more influence just because they have more money. I believe in social programs and I believe the government should reduce or eliminate the profit motive in healthcare. I believe in the separation between church and state and I believe in equal rights for everyone.
None of those opinions are dependent on what the loudest jackasses in my 'tribe' do on Twitter or during a protest.
I agree with you wholeheartedly, I just think it is something liberal-minded people do have to call out, so as not to allow darker forces on the right-wing to jump on it and make themselves look more sophisticated and attractive.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie