Comment by watwut
24 days ago
Liberals are too aggressive and disrespectful pushing for vaccines, it is their fault. Conservatives are too independent minded to accept vaccines in that situation.
I literally read that last week about unvaccinated Texans.
I know this has been pointed out many times, but it's really hard not to when it's so un-ignorable: The size of the gap in standards between liberals and conservatives regarding "disrespectful" behavior, especially taking context into account, is really, truly amazing.
What exactly is your point here?
That expectations on liberals are typically much much higher. First, people will blame liberals for not being super perfectly uber polite. Then they turn around and accept atrocious behavior on the conservative side with a word of complaint.
Second, while liberal politicians share blame for every online asshole who is liberal, conservative online assholes are excused and their politicians never share blame for that. Even when actual conservative representatives act rudely, someone will point out both are the same, because some liberal online troll something.
Third, very consistently, bad or stupid behavior on the republican side is claimed to be fault of liberals who made them do it. It is always backslash and conservatives are not to blame for their own behavior. I never seen reversed claim. If an SJW feminist do something wrong, it is never "backslash" to misogyny or bad behavior on the conservative side.
This is just a roundabout way of saying it's the Conservative's fault.
I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not...
I was not sarcastic. I really read that. It was in a normal serious journal when I googled about measles. I do not recall which one exactly it was, but the claims stayed with me. Both the knee jerk blame the liberals for what conservatives do and knee jerked "Texas conservatives are independently minded" as soft defense. There was about zero independent thinking involved (anti-vaccers just follow what their chosen authorities tell them) and it was the only mention of liberals in the article.
I find the claim absurd, but it was made in all seriousness.
It is sarcastic in that the parent is quoting/paraphrasing somebody else (they clarify this in the second paragraph).
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