Dennis Prager: Who Hates the Other More--Liberals or Conservatives?

Creator's Syndicate ^ | April 4, 2006 | Dennis Prager

[cripplecreek]

I don't hate liberals. I am often disgusted by liberals. Sometimes I pity them and sometimes they make me angry but I don't hate them.

[Graybeard58]

Liberals are just plain wrong but I wouldn't use that strong emotion (hate) on them. hate destroys the hater not the hated.

[BunnySlippers]

I read a lot of food-cooking blogs. Without having any reason to bring up politics when talking about food I routinely read snipes and insults about Cheney, Bush, neo-cons, Condi and others.

I know I wouldn't inject politics into a blog about cooking and end up alienating many of my readers. But liberals find every reason and platform to insult.

Same with the Academy Awards and music concerts. Who needs it! Why!

[dighton]

... the more left one goes, the more one is likely to encounter people who substitute “social justice” for personal morality.

In a similar vein,

There are people who are convinced of the wickedness both of armies and of police forces, but who are nevertheless much more intolerant and inquisitorial in outlook than the normal person who believes that it is necessary to use violence in certain circumstances. They will not say to somebody else, “Do this, that and the other or you will go to prison,” but they will, if they can, get inside his brain and dictate his thoughts for him in the minutest particulars. Creeds like pacifism and anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics — a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage — surely that proves that you are in the right? And the more you are in the right, the more natural that everyone else should be bullied into thinking likewise.

— Orwell: Lear, Tolstoy, and the Fool.

[crazyhorse691]

I tend to feel pity for liberals. And I do derive a lot of humor watching their antics. But, I try to get them to not play with anything sharp. Shot, I am a humanitarian!!

[satchmodog9]

Pity, disgust, laugh at but not hate.

[msnimje]

I don't care enough about liberals to hate them, they are insignificant to me because they have nothing of value to add to this country.

[cripplecreek]

I have my own way of dealing with liberals. I can usually find some common ground with them and start from there. I don't dispute their conspiracy theories or reasons for disliking conservatives or republicans. Instead I let them rant then gently point out something similar and indisputable about democrats. Usually they'll back down and accept that the democrats are just as dirty as the GOP. From their I like to think they look at politics a little differently.

DUmmies on the other hand are rabid lost cause liberals who are a minority among liberals.

[RHINO369]

Liberals are like special ed kids, you wouldn't want them driving your car, but you don't hate em.

[Babu]

How can you hate Liberals? They're just do damned cute when they're mad.

(and dangerous when they're in power)

[altura]

Definitely Liberals hate more.

I would not drop an old friend because she (or he) is a liberal.

But I've been dropped because I'm conservative.

[WashingtonSource]

I know a white liberal woman who started a charter school because she thought public schools were failing to teach kids even the most basic knowledge and skills. As it turned out most of her students are white. She said she was amazed that the local school administrators and many teachers loathe, hate and despise her even though she is a liberal. The public school authorities have done everything they could to run her out of business and get her school closed down.

What was shocking to me is that she said that she had learned that many of the charter schools have been started by blacks, something that surprised her because the whole idea of charter schools was a Republican idea, she said. (She knows I'm conservative so she put this as diplomatically as she could.) The point being that she couldn't imagine Republicans actually wanting to help black people.

I told her that it was my understanding that the idea behind charter schools was to help those most harmed by the public school system and that the people who fought for charter schools expected that blacks would be a chief beneficiary. She looked at me as if I had told her something that was to hear impossible to believe.

[T Lady]

I know a white liberal woman who started a charter school because she thought public schools were failing to teach kids even the most basic knowledge and skills. As it turned out most of her students are white. She said she was amazed that the local school administrators and many teachers loathe, hate and despise her even though she is a liberal. You mean to tell me she didn't realize the (Public School) Teachers' Union doesn't like any competition whatsoever? Especially anything that is perceived as taking monies out of the Public School trough? That's a hot one.

[Yardstick]

David Horowitz has written about how total the ostricism was when he switched sides. He was banished to outer darkness permanently, instantly, and absolutely by his former comrades, even those who were close friends. IIRC he compared it to leaving a cult. There's definitely something in the Left's core makeup that makes them prone to "unpersoning" people.

Oh, and here's another good insight from Horowitz, a one-liner that really nails it. "When you debate a liberal, be prepared to get kneed in the balls".

[Chode]

i don't hate them. the opposite of love isn't hate... it's indifference.

hate only gives them some validation in their own minds and takes up thought cycles in mine.

i simply couldn't care less if every one of them went toes up at once is all.

[elcid1970]

The anointed and saintly Julia Childs once declared that she "could never break bread at the same table with any Republican". After reading that I said,

Go declare "Bon Appetit!" to your French friends, madame chef!

[stands2reason]

Mature people don't hate immature people.

Immature people hate others because that's what immature people are prone to do.

Remember when you were a kid? How mad you'd get if someone disagreed with you or upset you in any way? Your typical eight-year old will scream "I HATE YOU!!" at least once a week.

[elcid1970]

Liberals are not insignifcant to you. They can and will hurt you, big time. They can change your entire lifestyle, against your will. Oh yes they can.