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This is another conservative trope: say something and then say you didn't say it, looping back over and over again. You defended the right of oppressi...

Isn't it odd that of all the problems of the world, including the vast oppression of minorities and the poor by the rich, Agustino has decided the the...

No, conservatism is fueled by wealthy oppressors, intent on exploiting others. They are pathological. The conservative underclass are either fools, du...

Whoosh! Right over your head!

So slaves can't expect the respect of slaveholder is they call them criminal and evil. I like your style of oppression!

And that's pathological It's the Krystalnacht mentality of the Nazis. Just be honest and admit you hate and fear gays. Get it over with. You'll feel b...

Yes, I can say without contradiction that all conservatives are evil. Conservatives are pathological and hate the other. Eschew it before it consumes ...

You need to pay attention to what you say, but that's asking a lot of the right.

No, I don't. Hatred of peoples' condition is a sickness. Claiming discrimination against Jews is bad, but not against gays, is borderline pathological...

Nobody, so this is a false dilemma. Another conservative strategy for avoiding discussing real issues.

The students on the campus, many of them minorities, believe that. So I'm going to listen to them. In addition to that I have heard enough of hateful ...

Because people should be able to live in their own country without being persecuted for having gender preferences? History shows that when hatred and ...

They are. What does that have to do with being invited to a campus to speak and to intimidate minorities?

No you won't. After one of your meme is exposed (something I and others have done), you'll go to the next one. There is no factual content to anything...

So now you're pretending to be reasonable after 30 posts dripping vitriol about the Left. Won't work with me.

No you don't. That's a trope conservatives often use.

Rightwingers are odious, yes. HItchens was mostly just dumb. Gallaway really wiped him out in his debate with him over Iraq. But you seem to be saying...

Yep and the issue is whether particularly odious speaker should be allowed to be invited onto a campus, which give some credence to their views, and w...

On the basis that your premise is false from the start. Nobody is being banned from speaking. The issue is who is invited to speak. If conservative we...

So you're for allowing people to appear on campuses and recruit jihadists to kill Christians right? Because you're for free speech, right? Stop preten...

BWHAHHAHAHAHHA. Conservatives never insult people who don't agree with them! BWHAHAHHAHHAHAH! Projection? You're soaking in it. I'm glad you're workin...

Yep, people have a right to call for a ban from people using the university system to promote their hatred and plans for discrimination. Of course whe...

I love it when conservatives, flummoxed by having their memes exposed, have to start quoting me and my vocabulary. Of course the history of campuses b...

So the ridiculous idea -- the meme being propagated by most of the rightwing noise machine right now -- is that students who protest unfair selection ...

Good point. Ahistoricity is another motif of conservative memes. The idea is that history started yesterday. So conservatives argue we should get rid ...

No, you didn't. You related bizarre rightwing memes with no factual content, and pretended that you were "in danger" from the left That's the poor put...

Oh God, I love the reverso-meme. You've just spent I don't know how many posts making bizarre coutnerfactual claims with loaded language against "left...

I honestly don't know what the hell you're talking about. It's more rightwing memes. You seem to have a problem with the Constitution and the values o...

Not so much the leftist position but rather a bizarre conservative fetish about being put upon when the rule of law applies to somebody other than ric...

This is the poor persecuted conservative meme. All rightwing memes are counterfactual, but this one is a doozy. Of course you can't even give an examp...

These are a minority, and always will be. The problem is they vote. The logistical problem for progressives is getting the majority of people, who sup...

Yeah, exactly. That's how you win modern elections, not to mention the broader agenda of the "universe of discourse" about what vision we have of the ...

This is a political thread and the usual suspects have posted their memes. I have no argument with you if you want to respond to gunnuttery with factu...

Sorry, Pneu, but credibility is an archaic term in the world of modern politics in the digital age. How much credibility did Bush have? And he won the...

I really don't think propaganda works that way, and I would invoke George Lakoff in that regard, and the fact that conservatives continue to win elect...

Fight meme with meme, not meme with reason. Now, progressive memes happen to be factual, but that doesn't matter. What raving are you talking about? G...

Yeah, so like the people who think that Obama is a marxist Kenyan Muslim, that lesbian witches caused 9-11, and that scientists are conspiring to impo...

I appreciate and share your commitment to "reasoned discussion" which is appropriate to a philosophy forum. It has no place in politics however. Vulca...

I don't think this matters. But in any case, I do think there is a difference between killing people and not killing people, exploiting people and not...

And that's why although the majority of Americans want gun control, they don't vote that way, because gun control advocates need to be more "reasonabl...

Thing is, I've read all the traditional stuff you've read. But you haven't read anything else. Indeed this is the first time you've heard about the re...

I thought I made it clear: we shouldn't try to convince the gun nuts. They're hopeless. The point is to convince the majority of Americans who in fact...

This is knownothingism. The best scholarship shows that the South wanted the 2nd Amendment (it's based on the Virginia Constitution written by George ...

That's exactly how you win political arguments - by delegimizing the other side. Ever hear of Gingrich's GOPAC memo? Of course you haven't. You want t...

Yeah, that'll work. It's worked so far. Politics isn't about reason; it's about framing issues. The right knows that, which is why we don't have gun c...

Conservatism is evil, so to the extent conservatives disagree with me on their odious exploitative politics, they are evil. Why do you find that hard ...

Excoriating evil in words is good for the soul and the first step in defeating it in practice. How issues are framed determines how they get argued. T...

I knew you'd agree with me.

"I've seen the future and it looks like murder." Actually Pneumenon's post suggests the heart of the matter: conservatives and their knownothing party...

Because some guys in Arizona are going to protect our democracy like they did during segregation when they rose up against Bull Conner and the unconst...