On 04/26/2012 02:06 AM, prawnster wrote:
> On Apr 25, 12:34 am,
nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com wrote:
>> [...]
>> I'm guessing you're American where "liberal" has a different meaning from where I come from (the UK)
>>
>> To me liberal simply means human freedom of belief and economically. The American constitution, for instance, is a very liberal document. Basic human rights are important and I believe neither state capitalism not laissez faire capitalism are completly workable systems.
>>
>
> You're describing classical liberalism. Modern liberalism is a
> Puritanical fascism where its adherents try to control the thoughts,
> speech, and actions of others, are intolerant of people who think
> differently from them,
The uproar over gay marriage. The Moral Majority (versus the purple
teletubby). Tea Party "Patriots". Glenn Beck's obsession with George Soros.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2010/11/was-glenn-beck-s-george-soros-takedown-anti-semitic/22300/
> and attempt to destroy the lives of those who
> dare voice ideas that differ from theirs.
COINTELPRO, the outing of Valerie Plame, Birthers vs. Obama, the uproar
over the Dixie Chicks (vs. "our boy" Toby Keith...yeeeehaw!!!), Nixon's
enumeration of enemies
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon%27s_Enemies_List),
> It is the absolute
> antithesis of classical liberalism.
As is racism:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_mar14.htm
[quote]The aftermath of Loving v. Virginia:
The laws and constitutions of some states still banned inter-racial
marriages. However the decision by the Supreme Court annulled them. The
state of South Carolina still had an anti-miscegenation law on the books
as late as 1998, although it was not applied. As of 2000-OCT, only the
state of Alabama still had a clause in its constitution prohibiting a
black person or descendent of a black person from marrying a white
person. The people of Alabama voted in the general special election of
2000-NOV-7 to delete the clause from their constitution. However the
vote was narrow. Only 60% of voters supported the repeal.
Still, racism dies hard in some states. A survey in 2011-MAR showed that
46% of Republican voters in Mississippi favor making interracial
marriages illegal in the state. Only 40% prefer keeping them legal. 11
It would be interesting to have a plebiscite in Mississippi to determine
if such marriages should be recriminalized. It might get Americans to
consider what is happening elsewhere in the country where the marriage
rights of loving, committed same-sex couples are routinely voted upon
and decided by 50% of the voters.[/quote]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Jones_University#Dropping_the_no-interracial-dating_rule_.282000.29
[quote]In 2000, following a media uproar prompted by the visit of
presidential candidate George W. Bush to the university, Bob Jones III
abruptly dropped the interracial dating rule, announcing the change on
CNN's "Larry King Live".[102] Five years later when asked for his view
of the rule change, the current president, Stephen Jones, replied, "I've
never been more proud of my dad than the night he...lifted that
policy."[103][/quote]
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