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Flaunting Ignorance as Evidence of Intellectual Superiority

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Every now and again, we get a left-wing reader who will offer regular comments, telling us exactly what Republicans and conservatives think.  When we try to correct him (it’s invariabily a “him”) by articulating our point of view, even linking pieces that we have posted on this blog–or on other right-of-center blogs, it is to no avail.  He has his set view of the GOP, drawn mostly from the “reporting” on MSNBC and the coverage on leftist blogs.

I’ve realized now that it makes no sense to engage these people.  They’ll frequent conservative blogs, chiming in as often as their free time allows, but pay little heed to our arguments.  They have a set view of the world which even reality cannot correct.  These are the type of people who will claim up and down that Obama never said this or never said that, and when provided video or a transcript of the Democrat saying just this or just that will hold forth that he misspoke.

Well. on Sunday, I came face to face with just such a liberal.  This man was convinced that anti-gay attitudes would end if the Republican Party stopped promoting them.  I hated to tell him this, while, the GOP may from time to time appeal to social conservatives by opposing policies popular among the gay left (and even the gay middle and right), our party is not the source of such attitudes.  And this won’t go often, even if the GOP (as I long have advocated) avoids gay issues altogether.

Some people see the GOP as institution designed primarily to please the straight white male status quo and subjugate all people who are different.  They are as clueless about the GOP as James Dobson is about gay people.

And when those with such an attitude publicly demonize the GOP, all they do is flaunt their ignorance, ironically in an attempt to show their intellectual (and moral) superiority to the rest of us.  Or to cement kinship with their fellow leftists, by denouncing the devil of their shared faith.

Comments

  1. They’ll frequent conservative blogs, chiming in as often as their free time allows, but pay little heed to our arguments.

    That’s the thing. They CAN’T pay “heed to our arguments”. They have their drive-by comments (buckeyenutgulper, ghillie, boob etc) and then disappear back under the bed. I suspect they would if they could, but they can’t, so they won’t.

    And liberals HAVE to keep convincing themselves and the proles, whom they believe are too stupid to know better, that Republicans are racist, sexist, bigot homophobes. If the people realized that the liberals are the real bigots, they’d be finished. The plantation would be burned to the ground like Windsor.

  3. #2 Amen. It’s funny how they run from their own words being used against them. I stand by what I say (not what some people refuse to read, Iggy), most all of the trolls* run.

    Likely the best was bob’s recent rant where he said in essense, “I’m not a fascist, I just think that the government control of businesses and nationalization of resources is a good idea, it worked for Nazi Germany.”

    *I say trolls, not liberals. Pat is very civil, and he’s a liberal. 😉

  5. TL, good one. I’d missed that thread. I was too busy swatting the claims of another commentor (this one allegedly from the Right) who seriously tries to say stuff like, “We should have national[ized] health care because conservatives are for more efficient government”, refusing to realize or admit that that line of argument puts him, also, in Hitler’s camp.

  6. (The important truth being that conservatives – even the ‘Burkean communitarian’ ones – want *limited* government. That’s aside from the secondary truth that national-socializing our health care system is a sure way to make it less efficient.)

  7. You cannot be serious. The Republican party all but stands for homophobia. When I think of the various groups lead by Mr. Perkins, Mr. Dobson, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Peter LaBarbera and the rest, are any of these groups lead by Democrats? There are Democrats who also weigh in on the wrong side (President Obama comes to mind) but it’s just plain wrong for any group to be supportive of organizations and a national (for how long) party that actively seek to reduce our community to second-class citizen status.

  9. There are Democrats who also weigh in on the wrong side (President Obama comes to mind)

    But you call them pro-gay and gay-supportive, so that makes it obvious that you’re a hypocrite and a liar who’s just trying to rationalize his slavish obedience to the Obama Party.

  12. #11 – Seems like the entire WH Press Corps are a bunch of Bagdad Bobs.

    Or as in the case with a certain littleletterperson, “Baghdad Boobs.”

    And no, I wasn’t referencing Dolly Parton.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  13. #10 All you have to do is read Judith Regan’s NY Times articles leading up to the Iraq War and there’s this other organization…The Fox ‘News’ Channel to name a few. I notice you all are too busy criticizing me and not proving the point that the Republican party doesn’t foster anti-gay sentiment. Like I said before, there aren’t any Democratic organizations trying to force us into second class status and propagating false, debunked stereotypes.

  14. And again, no links just words.

    Oh, you mean like comparing same sex relationships to incest and beastiality? That’s the Barney Frank approved stance of the current administration NJ Bigot.

    Again, you fail.