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Left is mean but right is meaner, says new study of political discourse
Tufts University ^ | February 10, 2011 | Unknown

Posted on 02/11/2011 10:01:05 AM PST by decimon

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To: decimon

No, I think it’s more like this....

The Left is mean.

The Right isn’t mean, we’re just pissed off. Once things are done OUR way, you’ll find we’re as nice as can be.

And the Left will still be mean, even if they get their way.


41 posted on 02/11/2011 10:47:47 AM PST by hoagy62 (I am a optimistic pessimist. I am positive that the world is going to Hell.)
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To: decimon

This mean reasearch is undoubtedly brought to us by Leftists.


42 posted on 02/11/2011 10:47:58 AM PST by Rippin
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To: decimon
Phony as it is, this academic "research" will take its place in the Left's pantheon of talking points that begin "Studies show..."

Our side, which operates from a foundation of moral and ethical principles, is disarmed by attacks from opponents who believe their "ends" justifiy any "means." For them, right and wrong do not exist.

43 posted on 02/11/2011 10:55:17 AM PST by Bernard Marx
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To: Castigar
I have no doubt that the social scientists found this but the finding is complete and utter bull crap.

I think you are being way too kind. Toughen up. The barbarians are upon us.

44 posted on 02/11/2011 10:58:53 AM PST by chesley (Eat what you want, and die like a man.)
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To: DEADROCK
Name anyone on the right who was meaner than: Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Hitler, ho chi minh, Castro and the greatest T-shirt salesman of all time. Names please...

The lefties will say Hitler was on the right. But ask them to distinguish what the difference is between Hitler and Stalin. The only significant difference between them was that Stalin got rid of all the private business and Hitler let them exist but under the boot of total state control. So allowing the illusion of private ownership of industry makes him conservative? I think not.

But the reality of the left's assertion that Hitler was on the right has nothing to do with reason. It is an emotional argument that Hitler was a big meanie so therefore he was on the right. Then they complete the circular logic to prove the right is mean thusly: "Hitler was a big meanie, therefore he was on the right. People on the right are big meanies because Hitler was on the right."

45 posted on 02/11/2011 11:01:57 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: pepsi_junkie
And collectivism is a leftwing phenomenon.
46 posted on 02/11/2011 11:22:57 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB ( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
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To: decimon

Cherry-picked data by a university finds that Left is not as “mean” as the Right. Film at 11 (after the coverage of the latest terrorist attack or shooting by some psychotic marxist or muslim... but that doesn’t count.)


47 posted on 02/11/2011 11:28:39 AM PST by A_perfect_lady (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: decimon

Leftie academics say right is mean. That’s headline stuff.


48 posted on 02/11/2011 11:43:34 AM PST by ozzymandus
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To: decimon

Stop turning the country into a communist hellhole, and return us to how it’s supposed to be... And those of us on the right will calm down

Keep pushing towards communism/Marxism .... And you ain’t seen nothing yet


49 posted on 02/11/2011 11:50:51 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: bolobaby

Bolobaby, you could also point to their choice of the word “immigrants” instead of “illegal aliens,” or at the very least “illegal immigrants.” To whatever degree Savage engages in “outrage talk,” I think it’s a distortion (as Obama would would say, a funhouse mirror image) to say he blasts immigrants.


50 posted on 02/11/2011 12:05:07 PM PST by Chiltepe
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To: Chiltepe

An EXCELLENT point.


51 posted on 02/11/2011 12:11:39 PM PST by bolobaby
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To: decimon

The research was sponsored by the Bernstein family at Tufts, per the article.

I guess Karl Marx was the original.


52 posted on 02/11/2011 3:35:13 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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The research was sponsored by the Bernstein family at Tufts, per the article.

No, not the Bernstein family.

53 posted on 02/11/2011 4:25:27 PM PST by decimon
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To: decimon

I stand corrected.


54 posted on 02/11/2011 10:28:30 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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