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[theweaselking]

"With increased openness, you can encounter gay people or conservatives anywhere. You might meet a coworker's partner at a company lunch, say, or have a longtime friend post a picture of an aborted fetus on your Facebook page. Maybe an older relative finally has the courage to express himself - and he either tells you he's going to start dating, or he sends you a racist email about the president.

However these things happen, millions of people across the country are getting more accurate images of both groups."

Comments

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

Is that an "accurate image" of Conservatives: people who post offensive pictures or make racist remarks? Someone might also come out as a Conservative by posting an ecomomic graph from a respectable source, or, yanno, civilly saying "I'm a Conservtive."

(I'm Far Left myself, but some of my best friends....)

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

It depends on your definition of "conservative". Does this mean a member of a party - and if so which party? If that party is supporting some extreme bigotries then, by inference, that person is giving tacit approval or, at least, tacit willingness to look the other way

If they don't mean by a particular party affiliation - then what do they mean on the social, economic scale? Rack up enough right wing positions, even confining to "just economics" and you generally get a result that will disproportionally hurt minorities. So maybe they won't make the remarks or ever do something so crass as send the pictures, but they'll still put the boot on the neck

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

He's referring to Americans, specifically using the American definition of the term: dyed in the wool Republicans, and those who consider the Republican party insufficiently ideologically pure.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Well, in an American context, again, if we're talking about supporters of the Republican party then that means no matter how polite or pleasant they are or no matter how utterly unwilling they would be to make such jokes or send such pictures, they still have to be willing to support a whole load of nasty bullshit

And if they're not a party supporter but still conservative - well, considering how far right their Overton window is, then if they're conservative on several issues that boot is definitely on the neck

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Someone might also come out as a Conservative by posting an ecomomic graph from a respectable source, or, yanno, civilly saying "I'm a Conservtive."

How many people are going to know the same two conservatives, though?