A good example...
I found this on the ABC News discussion forum...
http://forums.go.com/abcnews/thread?threadID=77169 (anti-Bush)
In short, this poster decided to make fun of some young folks who weren't paying attention to where they were standing, so the letters they were holding up spelled BUHS," instead of "BUSH."
The comments become even more distasteful when you look closely and see that the people look barely old enough to drive. The fact that they even have an opinion about politics at their age should be considered a victory. Instead, someone would rather ridicule them because of some understandable absent mindedness and call them rednecks because they support the conservative candidate.
This is one of the things I was talking about when I compared modern politics to a playground fight. That post doesn't have anything to do with political issues. This is an example of someone expressing their distaste for PEOPLE who believe differently than they do.
This happens on both sides (I'll look for an example of a jab against Kerry supporters; it shouldn't be too hard to find one). I'm sure that for everyone on the Left calling conservatives rednecks, there's someone on the right calling liberals treehuggers.
Question of the Day: Do we hate people first and then start hating their political philosophies, or do we hate a particular political philosophy and then start hating the people who support it?
It pains me to see the American political system used as a bludgeoning tool to attack people that we hate. We were meant for better things than this.
Government should be more about finding the best solutions and less about simply beating the other team.
http://forums.go.com/abcnews/thread?threadID=77169 (anti-Bush)
In short, this poster decided to make fun of some young folks who weren't paying attention to where they were standing, so the letters they were holding up spelled BUHS," instead of "BUSH."
The comments become even more distasteful when you look closely and see that the people look barely old enough to drive. The fact that they even have an opinion about politics at their age should be considered a victory. Instead, someone would rather ridicule them because of some understandable absent mindedness and call them rednecks because they support the conservative candidate.
This is one of the things I was talking about when I compared modern politics to a playground fight. That post doesn't have anything to do with political issues. This is an example of someone expressing their distaste for PEOPLE who believe differently than they do.
This happens on both sides (I'll look for an example of a jab against Kerry supporters; it shouldn't be too hard to find one). I'm sure that for everyone on the Left calling conservatives rednecks, there's someone on the right calling liberals treehuggers.
Question of the Day: Do we hate people first and then start hating their political philosophies, or do we hate a particular political philosophy and then start hating the people who support it?
It pains me to see the American political system used as a bludgeoning tool to attack people that we hate. We were meant for better things than this.
Government should be more about finding the best solutions and less about simply beating the other team.
posted by Blogmeister3000 at 9:07 PM
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