Conservatives who loathe liberalism at universities

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Article wrote:The professors and instructors surveyed are, strongly or somewhat, in favor of abortion rights (84 percent); believe homosexuality is acceptable (67 percent);


Anyone else think that 67% acceptance rate of homosexuality a bit low? I would have expected much higher.
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MrStakhanovite wrote:
Article wrote:The professors and instructors surveyed are, strongly or somewhat, in favor of abortion rights (84 percent); believe homosexuality is acceptable (67 percent);


Anyone else think that 67% acceptance rate of homosexuality a bit low? I would have expected much higher.

Compared to abortion? Yes. I think it's much easier to accept homosexuality than abortion, but maybe that's just me.
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MrStakhanovite wrote:
Quasimodo wrote:No one with an intellectual mind. :)


Droopy? Is that you?


I'm appalled! :) Why would you associate me with droopy? I can't think of anyone more polemically opposed to my philosophy than Droopy. I'm just your garden variety, overly liberal, crank. Somewhere to the left of most posters on this board.

It's probably my fault, but you don't understand me very well.
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Quasimodo wrote:Why would you associate me with droopy?


Same kind of rhetoric. Your statement that anyone with an intellectual mind would never identify conservative is a page right out of his play book, just replace conservative with the word liberal and you’ve got Droopy.

It’s that kind of black n white thinking is a red flag for sloppy thinking. It’s why I wish people like Buffalo, who leave the LDS Church, leave the rigid thinking behind too.
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asbestosman wrote:Compared to abortion? Yes. I think it's much easier to accept homosexuality than abortion, but maybe that's just me.


I thought the exact same thing.
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MrStakhanovite wrote:
Quasimodo wrote:Why would you associate me with droopy?


Same kind of rhetoric. Your statement that anyone with an intellectual mind would never identify conservative is a page right out of his play book, just replace conservative with the word liberal and you’ve got Droopy.

It’s that kind of black n white thinking is a red flag for sloppy thinking. It’s why I wish people like Buffalo, who leave the LDS Church, leave the rigid thinking behind too.


Hear, hear.
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MrStakhanovite wrote:
Quasimodo wrote:Why would you associate me with droopy?


Same kind of rhetoric. Your statement that anyone with an intellectual mind would never identify conservative is a page right out of his play book, just replace conservative with the word liberal and you’ve got Droopy.

It’s that kind of black n white thinking is a red flag for sloppy thinking. It’s why I wish people like Buffalo, who leave the LDS Church, leave the rigid thinking behind too.


Now you're sounding like Droopy. My statements are based on many years of conversations with both liberals and conservatives. My thinking is NOT black and white! I find YOUR thinking a little fuzzy.

You often claim to be a student of philosophy. I find that your posts expose that while you may be a student, you haven't really got it yet. No true philosopher would be as antagonistic as you have been. Your emotional rants are an indication of of your misunderstanding of the subject.

Talk to me when you have passed beyond your emotions. An advanced student of philosophy would understand what I mean.
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oh dear.
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MrStakhanovite wrote:oh dear.


Trite.
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Blixa wrote:[
Hear, hear.


Don't you mean "here, here'?

My thinking, Blixa, is not black and white.
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