I'm sorry if it seems like I "hate" you because of my comments. I think I tend to lash out a little more than I should toward conservatives because the conservatives in my hometown actually do hate liberals. I'm going to visit my parents this weekend, and I have no doubt in my mind that my car will be shoepolished with nasty things. People might even throw eggs at my car because I am a known liberal.
I think it's important to step back and admit that the two parties need each other, as much as they might hate to admit it.
I also think I should point out that if you don't hate anyone for having different opinions, you should not use the term "baby killer." That's a little, um, "intolerant" of you.
I understand what you mean - I've had my car vandalized 3 times in the last month, my boyfriend had his vandalized 14 times - at work- in a guarded parking lot - at a union shop. I've seen so many yard signs defaced, it makes me sick - I only saw one Kerry/Edwards sign that was defaced when I was out replacing Bush/Cheney signs. I pulled the sign, turned it in to the Dem headquarters and put a clean sign back in the yard of the person that had it before - because i support their right to voice their opinion.
The babykiller comment was used to grab your attention - which it did. It was posted to refute the implication that the people of the rest of texas are lemmings and can't think for themselves. It got quite strong after the xenophobe accusation that was groundless. Yes, I think we should agree to disagree - I wholeheartedly admire the fact that you are passionate about your beliefs. I'll never tell you that your convictions are wrong - but I will say that to hate someone else for theirs and to project hate and intolerance toward someone because they don't think the same as you is wrong.
In Oklahoma, Kerry/Edwards signs were stolen a lot, but never defaced. I saw a blurb on the news telling people to spray their signs with WD-40 so the signs would be harder to steal.
That sucks about your car. People who do things like that drive me crazy. They remind me of PETA; I think they would get a lot more respect if they didn't suck so much.
All I can say about the xenophobe comment is that about 80% of the Republicans I know are xenophobes. But I also don't understand why all liberals are supposed to believe in abortion, because I don't. Neither does my boyfriend or my mom or my dad or about a billion other liberals I know. Ah, stereotypes.
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Re: To quote the poet-philosopher Thomas Lehrer
on 5 Nov 2004 12:00 (UTC)I think it's important to step back and admit that the two parties need each other, as much as they might hate to admit it.
I also think I should point out that if you don't hate anyone for having different opinions, you should not use the term "baby killer." That's a little, um, "intolerant" of you.
Re: To quote the poet-philosopher Thomas Lehrer
on 5 Nov 2004 13:30 (UTC)I've seen so many yard signs defaced, it makes me sick - I only saw one Kerry/Edwards sign that was defaced when I was out replacing Bush/Cheney signs. I pulled the sign, turned it in to the Dem headquarters and put a clean sign back in the yard of the person that had it before - because i support their right to voice their opinion.
The babykiller comment was used to grab your attention - which it did. It was posted to refute the implication that the people of the rest of texas are lemmings and can't think for themselves. It got quite strong after the xenophobe accusation that was groundless.
Yes, I think we should agree to disagree - I wholeheartedly admire the fact that you are passionate about your beliefs. I'll never tell you that your convictions are wrong - but I will say that to hate someone else for theirs and to project hate and intolerance toward someone because they don't think the same as you is wrong.
Re: To quote the poet-philosopher Thomas Lehrer
on 5 Nov 2004 20:20 (UTC)That sucks about your car. People who do things like that drive me crazy. They remind me of PETA; I think they would get a lot more respect if they didn't suck so much.
All I can say about the xenophobe comment is that about 80% of the Republicans I know are xenophobes. But I also don't understand why all liberals are supposed to believe in abortion, because I don't. Neither does my boyfriend or my mom or my dad or about a billion other liberals I know. Ah, stereotypes.