Posted on 09/10/2008 9:25:28 AM PDT by foutsc
I got banned from a lefty site this Sunday. I admit it, I was taunting, but kick me off? I've been prowling websites the last year of so searching for a good debate. Most liberals I've engaged with don't want to debate, they just want to aim foul-mouthed tirades at the intellectual inferiors who are too stupid to think just like they do. The best discussions I've had were with European lefties and atheists. They know how to defend their positions and they do it without the rabid attacks. Go to your ordinary lefty site run by Americans and you will find herd-mentality people who are scared of a contrary point of view. The fateful thread I jumped into concerned the need to really start going negative against Sarah Palin. This lefty crowd was foaming at the mouth angry and wanted more attacks. Here are some of the enlightened comments:
Here is my first comment:Pissed Off Says: John MCSame Is too Old and too Angry to be President… George W. Bush has always been too stupid to Be President.karen marie Says: his (McCain's) shriveled little *&$%! can barely dribble pee at this point.
foutsc said: Keep up the attacks. Every left-wing nutball attack advances the conservative cause. McCain - Palin: Real Hope and Change!I also got this comment in before the petty fascists disappeared me from their putrid site:
foutsc said: ... And be sure to do it with sneering condescension. Remember how ridiculous the self-righteous Republicans looked when they were going after President Clinton? You look even worse going after Palin.Here is what the insecure thumb-sucker who moderates the forum put in place of my comments:
[Deleted: As a fellow blogger, we would expect a certain decorum on your part. As a site monitor here, I’ve realized that to expect manners from many right leaning people is expecting way too much. I am banning you. I’m scrubbing your URL from our site. It’s the kindest thing I can do for someone who has manners fit for the barnyard (I apologize, barnyards)-Sitemonitor]
Sinclair Lewis famously said: "Fascism will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a Bible." That may have been true in 1935, but it is now outdated, since the bible and the flag no longer enjoy a prominent position in our left-dominated popular culture.
Fascism is already creeping up on us in the form of
left-think political correctness. It is enforced by narrow-minded people who ignorantly call themselves liberals. It is writ large in workplaces, academia, and popular culture. But for big fascism to work, it requires thousands of little mini-me fascists. And these petty tyrants already practice it in thousands of petty fiefdoms scattered across our nation.Keeping with the “theme of the day”, what did you expect from a pig except an “oink”. They are reduced to cursing, slobbering, illogical remarks because they can’t stand the fact that they’ve backed ANOTHER loser. Can’t blame a pig for being a pig.......
I think Free Republic has been known to ban liberals who are considered to be “disruptive”. Jim Robinson considers this a conservative forum. We don’t all have to agree on everything, but we don’t need DU’ers here. They must have the same policy where you were posting. Posting at loony left blogs is a waste of time, IMO. you can lurk there to see what they say. But arguing with them is pointless.
It truly isn’t possible to debate with that lot. They can be teased for your own amousement, but that is a low form of entertainment - oh, what the hey, its fun anyway.
The best way to approach it is the “calm and reasonable”, “I’m-really-on-your-side-but” line.
In cases like this, run some lines like -
“You know, I appreciate all the anger and frustration here, but this just isn’t going to work. It just helps the other side, in fact I think its what they had in mind, they want everybody falling into that rage-trap and making mistakes.
Best to calm down and try to understand the other side, get some appreciation for where they are coming from, and think of arguments that appeal to people who aren’t like you. Maybe try to read some of the stuff that defines their world-view (give list of books).
And the attitude doesn’t work either. Calm, respect, and humility work a lot better. I suggest a look into Dale Carnegie.”
Yes I know, this will just drive them into greater fits. Good advice always does. But so be it. And there’s not a thing they can hit you with.
Exactly! In my lurking over there is how I learned of FR in the first place. I wouldn’t dream of “wresting with a pig” over there, but I am grateful that I saw the word “freeper”. I googled it, and here I am.
I do see the futility of trying to debate with them. I was not being provocative or disruptive though. I had been posting there for quite a while, so I was surprised that this is what pushed them over the edge.
I think Palin has completely unhinged them.
Heh. I got banned from the Fluffington Post my first time out. I dared make some comment about Jean Francois Kerry always dissing our troops and accusing them of atrocities in multiple wars.
Wear your ban as badge of honor.
Name calling, profanity, and slobbering on the keyboard are all accepted practices in liberal logic and discussion. This is the best they can muster. Attempt to discuss any issue that disagrees with homosexual perversion, or even use the word homosexual, and you will be banned from the San Fran Chronicle website. There are some sick people on that site.
For the left, politics is religion. Period.
But most (normal) Americans are able to keep their sense of humor, even if politics is important to them and the topic is edgy. Looks like you `blasphemed’.
(But put on your nomex underwear and check out one of the religion threads here sometime!)
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