So Sick Of This Gender Wars Bullshit

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63. I am listening

and I hear about things like "a group of dedicated trolls".

As for 8 different threads with similarly mocking titles. I don't know if that is a battle strategy as much as the "loungification of GD".

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4528985

Not that I was trying to encourage it, but in a sense if one person does it sometimes other people follow along.

And one of the problems here, as I see it, is the nature of the disagreement (which often happens on DU). Not just about feminist issues, but it is starting to seem to me like a serious failure in some liberals. This unwillingness to listen to, or respect, other points of view.

My sort of favorite example was from a debate about Food stamps. DU was kind of evenly split on whether it should be legal to use food stamps to purchase soda. Well and good, there could be a discussion about that, but it seemed like one side said

I do NOT think you should be able to buy soda with food stamps.

whereas the other side said

I DO think you should be able to buy soda with food stamps AND I think those against it are authoritarian control freaks.

The basic principle seems to be "there are NO decent people who disagree with me/us". There are the good people on our side and the bad people on the other side.

Anybody who is against us is a "dedicated troll", a "misogynist", a "misogynist enabler", a "wilfully ignorant fool who just doesn't get it", a "PINO", a "rightwinger", an "authoritarian", a "sensible woodchuck", a "blind partisan", a "hypocrite". Any number of names that can be used to denigrate somebody who questions, or worse yet, disputes, the absolute dogma of our gang.

Basically a defective person who is a Shark - not a real member of our gang - the Jets. And there's only one way to deal with a Shark.

RUMBLE!!!!