Yes, it's an old tactic, using Left issues to slam them with. However it fails miserably when (Reply #65)

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sabrina 1 (62,325 posts)

65. Yes, it's an old tactic, using Left issues to slam them with. However it fails miserably when

you point that those USING this tactic are supporting people like Maliki. How is HE on gay rights, does anyone know? Or the Saudis, or the Bahrain dictatorship not to mention Uzbekistan, all allies of the slammers of those who oppose these mass killings.

I have tried to get some of them to answer how it is that this issue of women's and gay's rights seems to end at the close relationships our government has with some of the world's worst abusers of both women and gays. But I never get an answer.

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74 replies	Author	Time	Post
I am the American left and I do not support fundamentalism in any religion. [View all]	La Lioness Priyanka	Aug 2014	OP
Lioness,	hifiguy	Aug 2014	#1
...	La Lioness Priyanka	Aug 2014	#2
No, you're not the only one	get the red out	Aug 2014	#3
..	La Lioness Priyanka	Aug 2014	#5
Nope, not the only one	gaspee	Aug 2014	#4
yup	La Lioness Priyanka	Aug 2014	#6
Good bet. We are many and gaining strength.	Zen Democrat	Aug 2014	#7
Yep. K&R	Tierra_y_Libertad	Aug 2014	#8
I have no idea what precipitated this thread...	devils chaplain	Aug 2014	#9
It is a weird argument	el_bryanto	Aug 2014	#10
i think the argument is simply this	La Lioness Priyanka	Aug 2014	#11
Well I get that - I remember the days of "effectively pro-Saddam"	el_bryanto	Aug 2014	#15
Yer wiffus	Jackpine Radical	Aug 2014	#54
..	La Lioness Priyanka	Aug 2014	#56
pink washing is a pet peeve	m-lekktor	Aug 2014	#12
what i dont understand about pink washing is the notion	La Lioness Priyanka	Aug 2014	#13
i have witnessed a more simplistic version	m-lekktor	Aug 2014	#17
Yes it is very lazy thinking.	truedelphi	Aug 2014	#41
you might find this interesting.	m-lekktor	Aug 2014	#22
I cant stand michael lucas. he is a giant racist. nt	La Lioness Priyanka	Aug 2014	#24
oh i know. he keeps popping up on my "people you might know" facebook thing.	m-lekktor	Aug 2014	#26
it infuriated me too. also i feel like he has said other more overtly racist things in the past	La Lioness Priyanka	Aug 2014	#30
It's simply to sell the slaughter to lazy thinkers on the left	Scootaloo	Aug 2014	#61
Yes, it's an old tactic, using Left issues to slam them with. However it fails miserably when	sabrina 1	Aug 2014	#65
Good for you	rickyhall	Aug 2014	#14
I support freedom of religion myself, so long as that religion doesn't intrude on others. nt	el_bryanto	Aug 2014	#16
Same here.	F4lconF16	Aug 2014	#21
including their children. nt.	tomp	Aug 2014	#49
Depends on what you mean by that. nt	el_bryanto	Aug 2014	#51
i'm pretty radical when it comes to indoctrination of children.	tomp	Aug 2014	#74
Not a fan of the non-religious fundies either.	Throd	Aug 2014	#18
i dont know what a non religious fundamentalist is.	La Lioness Priyanka	Aug 2014	#20
There are other dogmas apart from religion where people can be just as rabid and intolerant.	Throd	Aug 2014	#25
ahh. i see what you mean.	La Lioness Priyanka	Aug 2014	#31
I haven't seen that ever in my life. and I'm over 60.	2banon	Aug 2014	#38
Both The Third Reich and Pol Pot were Godless movements.	truedelphi	Aug 2014	#42
Then you were alive when Maoists had their heyday in the 60's.	Throd	Aug 2014	#45
I misperceived the context as regarding religious fundamentalism vs "atheist fundamentalism"	2banon	Aug 2014	#70
There are military fundamentalists.	Enthusiast	Aug 2014	#36
I don't know what brought this on; but as a British leftie I also oppose all forms of religious	LeftishBrit	Aug 2014	#19
Yep, you already know where I stand on this. nt	stevenleser	Aug 2014	#23
BINGO!	cer7711	Aug 2014	#27
I vacillate --	gateley	Aug 2014	#28
the iraq situation is definitely worth vacillating about. there is no clear good answer	La Lioness Priyanka	Aug 2014	#29
I do not support fundamentalism, no matter what form we find it in.	Rex	Aug 2014	#32
!!	Jack Rabbit	Aug 2014	#33
I'm one of those classic blue collar Dems who believes the whole damn planet is in this together...	Spitfire of ATJ	Aug 2014	#34
When people learned to speak and became able to transfer their belief systems to others....	DocwillCuNow	Aug 2014	#35
That is so true.	truedelphi	Aug 2014	#43
trudelphi	irisblue	Aug 2014	#53
Here it is. I am curious, where is the bluewater castle?	truedelphi	Aug 2014	#73
With you here.. and I don't even support Religion	2banon	Aug 2014	#37
Fundamentalism is	KT2000	Aug 2014	#39
about pink washing, i am noticing many right wingers using treatment of gays in muslim	JI7	Aug 2014	#40
I don't care what people believe	BainsBane	Aug 2014	#44
Isn't the ultimate goal to make rich people richer? Isn't that always	valerief	Aug 2014	#46
It isn't about religion	swilton	Aug 2014	#47
I'm an atheist, a vegetarian, and a staunch liberal	RiverNoord	Aug 2014	#48
Definitely not the only one!	VA_Jill	Aug 2014	#50
I am starting to think Fundamentalism is a Mental Illness.	peoli	Aug 2014	#52
It's not, in and of itself,	Jackpine Radical	Aug 2014	#55
If it's not, it should be.	Iron Man	Aug 2014	#58
Ditto... and well said, Pri...	Rhythm	Aug 2014	#57
All fundamentalism religions aren't the same.	maced666	Aug 2014	#59
Yes	Tom Ripley	Aug 2014	#60
I'm a human being and don't support religion in any form.	randome	Aug 2014	#62
Religion is spiritualism gone political	subject	Aug 2014	#64
you are part of the American left or in the American left	hfojvt	Aug 2014	#63
Lol. Ok. Nt	La Lioness Priyanka	Aug 2014	#69
You are not alone.	Marrah_G	Aug 2014	#66
Religious fundamentalism will scorch the earth.	abakan	Aug 2014	#67
I am 100% liberal, and I stand with you, Lionness.	closeupready	Aug 2014	#68
K&R!	DeSwiss	Aug 2014	#71
I refuse to live under a government ruled by theocrats.	Initech	Aug 2014	#72

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