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  • Blue America: The land of the easily offended

    12/06/2004 10:28:27 PM PST · by kattracks · 71 replies · 2,960+ views
    townhall.com ^ | 12/07/04 | Dennis Prager
    Commentators on our country explain our blue-red division in many ways -- liberal-conservative; secular-religious; North-South; coasts-heartland; singles-married with children.  I propose one more explanation: the easily offended-the not so easily offended.  With the acknowledgment that there are many individual exceptions, a major defining characteristic of modern-day liberalism is the ease with which liberals take offense personally and/or on behalf of others.  Liberals regularly portray as offended women, African Americans, Jews, American Indians, gays and every other group liberals declare a minority, i.e., any group that votes Democrat -- no group that votes Republican, such as Mormons, Cuban Americans and Vietnamese...