These days “religious freedom” has come to mean “being a judgmental jerk who is obsessed with policing other people’s lives.”
Religious Freedom
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These days “religious freedom” has come to mean “being a judgmental jerk who is obsessed with policing other people’s lives.”
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The thing to note is that conservatives have always been far ahead of liberals when it comes to messaging.
So when you pull your child out of school because they teach evolution and global warming and the homosexual agenda, well, that’s not a ‘safe space’ issue, that’s just being conservative.
When the state of texas rewrites textbooks to downplay the horrors of slavery, it’s not a ‘trigger warning’ over having to face reality, it’s just being conservative.
See, they brand their trigger warnings as parent’s rights. Which is smart.
So, really, the problem is that the liberal activists in college (but seriously, why would you expect more from kids who are just learning how to engage politically) have branded themselves in a way that makes them easy to mock.
There’s no group more thin-skinned as conservatives. But they’ve won the messaging war. Liberal social justice warriors get shat upon from both the right and the left.
Whereas the guy who’s just FUMING about the fact that he can’t make jokes about colored people and broads and jews at the workplace and therefore is voting for TRUMP gets to call himself a tough son of a bitch red-blooded conservative.
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Religious Freedom is just brilliant. Along with Free Markets. Why, you’d have to be a maniac to oppose FREEDOM!
Destroying unions gets branded as ‘Right To Work’.
These guys are good.
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Very true. Conservative students demand trigger warnings and complain about hurt feelings all the time. But no matter how many times this is pointed out, the myth persists that it’s only ultra liberal students who do that. It’s so frustrating! I literally don’t remember the last time I saw a liberal student yet I spend quite a bit of time self-censoring, soothing, and being careful with sensibilities.
You are absolutely right, it’s about creating a certain image, carefully choosing one’s vocabulary, and then nobody will pay any attention to reality.
The reason why students are like this is not liberalism. It’s the consumerist model of education that we offer them. That’s the problem.
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