Quote: I'm Not Mister Mxypltk said: This goes beyond liberal professors discriminating against convervative students; as I'm sure it's been pointed out in one of all the posts I didn't read, if the majority of professors were conservative, they would discriminate against liberal students. No, the real problem is that there's an idiotic amount of useless hostility between both sides, useless because, as the posters in this forum know better than anyone, adults are so stubborn that it's impossible to get them to change their views after they've stated them, even if logic dictates they should.
The real problem is when this hostility manifests itself in the real world, like in the media or politics. Partisan hatred prevents actually talking things out, getting anything accomplished, and letting the American people know what's really at stake and what the issues are really about.
Quote: There's a tremendous amount of debate in this forum... I wonder how many people have actually changed any of their views by taking part in them. I get the feeling most of the time there's debate just for debate's sake posing as worthwhile debate.
I thought I was the only one around here who thought this way. It drove me away once, and it's almost driven me away again several times since. After I took a week off after my grandfather died, I strongly considered not coming back at all because I got so tired of the fighting and the stubborness.
Quote: Has it ever happened to you that you suddenly dislike a person after you've found out what their political ideas are?
No, because it doesn't matter to me. I don't care what people's politics are, as long as they don't play the misionary or demonize me for not seeing eye to eye with them. People have cast me aside because of my political views, and it hurts me. Some conservatives think I'm liberal just because I'm not conservative, and it never enters their mind that there are moderates who don't fit in to either category (Not all of them, though. I have quite a few conservative friends who don't really care where I stand politically, and who are smart enough to realize that not conservative doesn't automatially mean liberal.)
However, now that I think about it, no liberal I know has ever cast me off for not being a liberal. My parents are hardcore liberals, but they respect my stance as a moderate.
Maybe this is one reason why I tend to sympathize more with liberals than conservatives on some occasions - because conservatives label and stereotype me as something I'm not, and liberals tend not to do that.
Quote: If I dislike a person it should be because they're low as human beings, not because of something as trivial as what side do they lean to.
Agreed. Disliking a liberal or conservative doesn't automatically make you one of the opposition, and it annoyes me when people are too narrow-minded to tell the difference.
I hate labelling and stereotyping under any circumstances, and for liberals or conservatives to be stereotyped or being accused of believing in something they don't truly aggravates me - especially when the accusers refuse to believe or listen to the people they're rashly accusing. Stubbornness is another pet peeve of mine.
I wish that moderates were as much of a force as liberals or conservatives are. Liberals and conservatives have their own fellow liberals and conservatives to rally behind. We moderates don't really have any.
Last edited by Darknight613; 2005-03-072:05 AM.
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