LOL-indeed. I recently encountered someone so afflicted - a tech/assistant-type at a physical therapy clinic. She, like, just graduated from high school? and, like, doesn't know what she wants to study in college? She's thinking about history or poli-sci? because, like, she was sooooo inspired by her high school history teacher. Her high school history teacher filled her head with "issues" and "causes" to stand up for. Top of the list? Why, Walmart, of course!
This young lady let loose with a tirade one day, and the whole clinic basically came to a standstill to listen to her. Walmart is soooo evil. Walmart uses sweat shop labor while the fat cats drive Ferraris. Walmart won't pay their employees but the 'heirs' get the fortune without having to work for it. Boycott evil Walmart!! Blah blah blah, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
When it became clear that the clinic management thought this kind of nonsense *wasn't* inappropriate, the patients formed a conspiracy of their own and started asking a few questions of the young rocket scientist...
If target is a better place to shop and work, what's stopping an unhappy Walmart employee from working there? (her answer was that mostly 'old' people work at Walmart and wouldn't be interested in Target which is where young people work. One guy asked her what she had against old people? Shouldn't they have jobs so they can buy their perscriptions? LOL) Why is it better to buy sweatshop products at Target than at Walmart? Is it better to have a job in a sweatshop or to have no job at all? If a father has a sweatshop job to put food on the table for his kids and buy them a better future/more opportunities, would you rather he go back to the farm or wherever where his kids have no future at all? Are you against children in poor countries?? (heh - this one made her upset) So the fat cats own a lot of stocks and bonds. Your high school was built with bonds, would you rather have the new school building or the old one? Buying a Ferrari means the people who make and ship and sell Ferraris *have* jobs. People who mine the iron ore, who make the steel, who make the parts, who make the cars, the designers, the marketers, the people who make the slick magazine advertisements all have jobs because of people who buy the products. Their kids get to eat, get to buy pencils and lunch boxes for school, get to go to college... And so on.
There were four of us piling on. The poor girl had no chance. Finally she gave up and said, "I don't care! Walmart is still evil. That's why I shop at Target."
Her generation is our future...
Confronting a liberal with reason and logic is truly casting pearls before swine...............
Asking to be specific about their generalizations is good sport. They hate that tactic because it forces them to think.