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In reply to the discussion: Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists [View all]ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...but your own comments are pure flamebait:
"You mean pedantic screeds belittling people for not behaving and thinking exactly the way you think they ought to backfires?"
Sooo, given that surveys indicate that many Americans don't like "liberals", to what would you attribute that? Are liberals also guilty of "belittling people for not behaving and thinking exactly the way (they) think"?
Me, I think Americans have these attitudes because of a concerted effort by right wing hate radio, right wing so-called think tanks, and conservatives in general, over the last 30 years at least, to make "liberal" a dirty word. I think the same is true for feminists and environmentalists. The right wing and its echo chamber have successfully caricatured and demonized feminists (Limbaugh's favorite epithet being "feminazis"
and environmentalists (aka "eco-terrorists"
, along with liberals.