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lady_morgaine

Updates in no particular order. . .

Nov 21, 2005 13:25

I'm a little anxious now: I just added some of my liberal ND theology friends to my facebook friends' list, and they don't know that I am conservative. They are very adamantly liberal, which is fine - many of my friends are liberal, and we get along great - but whenever they go on their anti-conservative bashes I usually don't say anything (I don' ( Read more... )

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lastremnant November 21 2005, 22:37:10 UTC

I have a lot of friends who are adamantly liberal, particularly from my old college. I think what will happen is that they will still accept you but be like "Oh, she's conservative?" and then make some exception that "every conservative is bad BUT Karen." Sort of like what some anti-catholics do to me when they find out I am catholic. :) "Oh, you're a catholic? Well, you must be the exception." :) hehe But you can't really escape their perception of conversatives if they are truly negative. They might believe that you just need to "see the light" or something. :)

lady_morgaine November 21 2005, 23:24:07 UTC

Yeah, I'm also afraid of that, too. I'm not looking to convert them to conservatism, so I hope they won't start looking to convert me to liberalism. :)

I'm sure they won't alienate me, but I'm very sure their perceptions of me will change. We'll see, though, in how they treat me in the upcoming weeks! :)

lastremnant November 21 2005, 23:46:43 UTC

Well, hope it turns out okay in any regard. :)

hahaha. And I just noticed I misspelled conservatives "Conversatives." Cool, we should all be converse. ;)

lumen_gentium82 November 25 2005, 03:45:51 UTC

"I think people thought it funny how into the game I get - here's this tiny little girl, who is reduced to tears when watching American Heart Association commericals, shouting "KILL HIM!" when the ND defense is about to make a tackle, or laughing with maniacal glee when one of their guys gets tackled."
Ha ha! But that's so endearing!

Not So Much Advice As Commentary saturndevouring November 26 2005, 08:00:14 UTC

I've recently become acquainted with the philosophical term "genetic fallacy" defined as the belief that "a perceived defect in the origin of a claim or thing is taken to be evidence that discredits the claim or thing itself." Thus, person who label themselves with specific nomenclatures (liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican) are either to be trusted entirely or not trusted at all according to the mental processes of the political extremist. I wonder how much of that blanket of mistrust, however, covers your more "moderate" political viewpoints ( ... )