...just the same as the 75% of Conservative extremists who call themselves Christian? or Jewish? or Muslim? Is that what the author is trying to say? Or is he just trying to paint all limousine liberals with the same broad brush.
"Far Left" consists of...? Give me a person or a group name. Or you (the article writer) in the same category of who are comparing that Christians and other observant cultural/ethnic religious group members with the Radical Right - that you're probably also complaining against those broad brush comments.
Extremists are extremists. Not that they aren't "Liberals" if they call themselves Liberal (I don't believe in "no true Scotsman"
, but most Liberals will happily call those "Liberals" out for being extremist assholes who are just after sex, drugs, or whatever "non-conformity" is that makes them feel like they're special.
Loudly and regularly. We do it here at DU all the time. We don't use paint brushes, we wag fingers at and then throw buckets of different colors over each other all the time...
Liberals have "nuance" after all, and there is no one label that can cover the wide range of liberal thought. We aren't all vegan communist hippie actors, or drunken slacker sex addicts with mommy issues, and/or PETA members. We're diverse, rag-tag, argumentative, and proudly unorganized.
Unlike a lot of people who practice commando-style labeling that are stuck with trying to ignore their own ideological extremists.
Haele
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