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In reply to the discussion: Taking a radical right-wing position on the part of an outgroup is not "liberalism." [View all]Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)43. Only if "yeahbut" is a meaningless neologism
And in your case, it seems to be - a "yeahbut" is apparently any reply that doesn't fall over itself applauding you.
I'm informing you that I find no worth or value in your posts on the subject, and that I am not looking forward to the next few days of seeing a bunch of other smug, self-congratulatory doofuses putting on their "i'm-not-a-bigot-but" hats and elevating a pair of dumbfucks who got themselves killed into a civilizational crisis.
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Taking a radical right-wing position on the part of an outgroup is not "liberalism." [View all]
True Blue Door
May 2015
OP
Tolerance and sympathy for religious madmen is acceptable because... police brutality?
Kurska
May 2015
#22
I would usually view attempted murder as a more serious offense than disagreeing with me.
Kurska
May 2015
#74
A "yeahbut" is what happens when bigotry is confronted by inconvenient reality.
True Blue Door
May 2015
#44
This is all projection, repeated immediately after I just said the same things to YOU:
True Blue Door
May 2015
#51
What's that childhood game where you just randomly insert words into sentences?
True Blue Door
May 2015
#58
I do not think a calf wound is worthy of an existential "clash of civilizations" rant.
Scootaloo
May 2015
#32
Thank you. It is also not "liberalism" to accept misogyny in certain other foreign cultures
pnwmom
May 2015
#9
It's even more odd that our Government, which speaks for us, has so many allies whose cultures
sabrina 1
May 2015
#15
The Christians who did that were WRONG and that doesn't excuse the people who do it now.
pnwmom
May 2015
#14
We will. The world will be completely off of fossil fuels by mid-century.
True Blue Door
May 2015
#67
Would you be okay with the same thing "Not hurting Christians by insulting Jesus"
Kurska
May 2015
#65
++ thread. There is no excuse for physical attacks on people criticizing an ideology.
Yorktown
May 2015
#78