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[prof_irina]

Ok... read the following sentence, and then tell me whether you feel there is anything, let's say, incongruous about it:

"I don't agree with several categories of liberals, but I do not want to see them summarily killed, though I suspect they feel differently about me as a Christian conservative male."

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[lynn_thomas]

I have to admit that it took me a full 5 minutes to figure out what it was this statement actually meant. I guess he is saying that he does not agree with people and that he doesn't want to kill them because he doesn't agree? What does he mean several Categories of Liberal? That terminology doesn't work in my heda for some reason.

[prof_irina]

I dunno.... what I found incongruous was the idea that several categories of liberal might like to see conservative Christians summarily executed... doesn't that kind of defeat the concept of being liberal in the first place?

[ablueskier]

Not in America. Yes he took it extreme to say "kill" but the general "liberal" feeling in the US is the Conservative Christians and especially Male Conservative Christians are tyrannical people wanting to rule over everyone and that they are sooo narrowminded and not updating to the times. It is becoming socially impolite to talk about Christianity anymore because all us Christians want to do is insult those that aren't us and convert everyone or treat them as inferiors

[geezer_also]

ablueskier, as always has hit the nail solid.

I would like to add a bit.....Richard Gere, on a talk show, during the impeachment hearings started yelling, lets march to henry Hydes house, and kill his family, etc....he was applauded. Randi Rhoads, a radio talk show host on NPR or Free America (not sure which) has more than once commented on how good it would be if certain of the present administration were shot.

Granted, while there are idiotic conservatives that say things like that, they are attacked by liberals and conservatives alike, when a liberal says something so extreme, the left is strangely silent.

who said it by the way?

[prof_irina]

it was just someone I know (an American) - not anyone public.

thanks for the explanation guys, it makes more sense in that context.

So, "liberal" in the same sense that Tony Blair is a socialist... lol.