Riley Gaines testifies - and offends
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It helps to think in terms of conservatism in the abstract, as a defense of the dominant culture. So, cultural conservatives these days are progressives, as that is the entrenched dominant institutional culture. They are conservative in the sense that they are protective of mainstream ideas and exclusionary against other ideas, and they wield the institutional power to do something about it. The biggest clue is that "free speech", and its advocacy has become a sneer-worthy pre-marginalized tribal identification.
If you want to know what the conservative politics in any western society is, just poll the middle aged women, and find out
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It helps to think in terms of conservatism in the abstract, as a defense of the dominant culture. So, cultural conservatives these days are progressives, as that is the entrenched dominant institutional culture. They are conservative in the sense that they are protective of mainstream ideas and exclusionary against other ideas, and they wield the institutional power to do something about it. The biggest clue is that "free speech", and its advocacy has become a sneer-worthy pre-marginalized tribal identification.
If you want to know what the conservative politics in any western society is, just poll the middle aged women, and find out
what they thinkhow they feel.@Horace said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
It helps to think in terms of conservatism in the abstract, as a defense of the dominant culture. So, cultural conservatives these days are progressives, as that is the entrenched dominant institutional culture. They are conservative in the sense that they are protective of mainstream ideas and exclusionary against other ideas, and they wield the institutional power to do something about it. The biggest clue is that "free speech", and its advocacy has become a sneer-worthy pre-marginalized tribal identification.
If you want to know what the conservative politics in any western society is, just poll the middle aged women, and find out
what they thinkhow they feel.I can get down with the idea that today's "conservatives" are actually the liberals who don't know they are anything but liberal, but meanwhile, the ones calling themselves conservatives are playing the same game.
Liberals (conservatives really): orthodox as fuck.
Conservatives (basically conserving the America of the 50s): orthodox as fuck.It's a very bad time new ideas.
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@Horace said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
It helps to think in terms of conservatism in the abstract, as a defense of the dominant culture. So, cultural conservatives these days are progressives, as that is the entrenched dominant institutional culture. They are conservative in the sense that they are protective of mainstream ideas and exclusionary against other ideas, and they wield the institutional power to do something about it. The biggest clue is that "free speech", and its advocacy has become a sneer-worthy pre-marginalized tribal identification.
If you want to know what the conservative politics in any western society is, just poll the middle aged women, and find out
what they thinkhow they feel.I can get down with the idea that today's "conservatives" are actually the liberals who don't know they are anything but liberal, but meanwhile, the ones calling themselves conservatives are playing the same game.
Liberals (conservatives really): orthodox as fuck.
Conservatives (basically conserving the America of the 50s): orthodox as fuck.It's a very bad time new ideas.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
@Horace said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
It helps to think in terms of conservatism in the abstract, as a defense of the dominant culture. So, cultural conservatives these days are progressives, as that is the entrenched dominant institutional culture. They are conservative in the sense that they are protective of mainstream ideas and exclusionary against other ideas, and they wield the institutional power to do something about it. The biggest clue is that "free speech", and its advocacy has become a sneer-worthy pre-marginalized tribal identification.
If you want to know what the conservative politics in any western society is, just poll the middle aged women, and find out
what they thinkhow they feel.I can get down with the idea that today's "conservatives" are actually the liberals who don't know they are anything but liberal, but meanwhile, the ones calling themselves conservatives are playing the same game.
Liberals (conservatives really): orthodox as fuck.
Conservatives (basically conserving the America of the 50s): orthodox as fuck.It's a very bad time new ideas.
Do you really think that Conservatives want the country to go back to the 50s? Race? Women’s Lib? Acceptance of homosexuals?
I’m a conservative, and the only thing that I would like to see revived from the 50’s is Radio Dramas. Maybe some of the music, too. A lot of great music gets short shrift to the 60’s.
The Brad
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I will absolutely agree with you regarding the arts in general, though.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
@Horace said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
It helps to think in terms of conservatism in the abstract, as a defense of the dominant culture. So, cultural conservatives these days are progressives, as that is the entrenched dominant institutional culture. They are conservative in the sense that they are protective of mainstream ideas and exclusionary against other ideas, and they wield the institutional power to do something about it. The biggest clue is that "free speech", and its advocacy has become a sneer-worthy pre-marginalized tribal identification.
If you want to know what the conservative politics in any western society is, just poll the middle aged women, and find out
what they thinkhow they feel.I can get down with the idea that today's "conservatives" are actually the liberals who don't know they are anything but liberal, but meanwhile, the ones calling themselves conservatives are playing the same game.
Liberals (conservatives really): orthodox as fuck.
Conservatives (basically conserving the America of the 50s): orthodox as fuck.It's a very bad time new ideas.
Do you really think that Conservatives want the country to go back to the 50s? Race? Women’s Lib? Acceptance of homosexuals?
I’m a conservative, and the only thing that I would like to see revived from the 50’s is Radio Dramas. Maybe some of the music, too. A lot of great music gets short shrift to the 60’s.
@LuFins-Dad said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
@Horace said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
It helps to think in terms of conservatism in the abstract, as a defense of the dominant culture. So, cultural conservatives these days are progressives, as that is the entrenched dominant institutional culture. They are conservative in the sense that they are protective of mainstream ideas and exclusionary against other ideas, and they wield the institutional power to do something about it. The biggest clue is that "free speech", and its advocacy has become a sneer-worthy pre-marginalized tribal identification.
If you want to know what the conservative politics in any western society is, just poll the middle aged women, and find out
what they thinkhow they feel.I can get down with the idea that today's "conservatives" are actually the liberals who don't know they are anything but liberal, but meanwhile, the ones calling themselves conservatives are playing the same game.
Liberals (conservatives really): orthodox as fuck.
Conservatives (basically conserving the America of the 50s): orthodox as fuck.It's a very bad time new ideas.
Do you really think that Conservatives want the country to go back to the 50s? Race? Women’s Lib? Acceptance of homosexuals?
Oh FFS. Yes I have blue hair and think that, give me a break. You know what I meant. If you don't, feel free to replace "50s" with whatever 1-word shorthand you'd prefer for "values, laws, and economic opportunities that were prevalent prior to the introduction of woke shenanigans."
I’m a conservative, and the only thing that I would like to see revived from the 50’s is Radio Dramas. Maybe some of the music, too. A lot of great music gets short shrift to the 60’s.
Church attendance was up higher back then. And aren't you the guy always posting things about Loudoun County public schools? You'd rather have today's public school system, really?
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@LuFins-Dad said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
@Horace said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
It helps to think in terms of conservatism in the abstract, as a defense of the dominant culture. So, cultural conservatives these days are progressives, as that is the entrenched dominant institutional culture. They are conservative in the sense that they are protective of mainstream ideas and exclusionary against other ideas, and they wield the institutional power to do something about it. The biggest clue is that "free speech", and its advocacy has become a sneer-worthy pre-marginalized tribal identification.
If you want to know what the conservative politics in any western society is, just poll the middle aged women, and find out
what they thinkhow they feel.I can get down with the idea that today's "conservatives" are actually the liberals who don't know they are anything but liberal, but meanwhile, the ones calling themselves conservatives are playing the same game.
Liberals (conservatives really): orthodox as fuck.
Conservatives (basically conserving the America of the 50s): orthodox as fuck.It's a very bad time new ideas.
Do you really think that Conservatives want the country to go back to the 50s? Race? Women’s Lib? Acceptance of homosexuals?
Oh FFS. Yes I have blue hair and think that, give me a break. You know what I meant. If you don't, feel free to replace "50s" with whatever 1-word shorthand you'd prefer for "values, laws, and economic opportunities that were prevalent prior to the introduction of woke shenanigans."
I’m a conservative, and the only thing that I would like to see revived from the 50’s is Radio Dramas. Maybe some of the music, too. A lot of great music gets short shrift to the 60’s.
Church attendance was up higher back then. And aren't you the guy always posting things about Loudoun County public schools? You'd rather have today's public school system, really?
@Aqua-Letifer said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
@LuFins-Dad said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
@Horace said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
It helps to think in terms of conservatism in the abstract, as a defense of the dominant culture. So, cultural conservatives these days are progressives, as that is the entrenched dominant institutional culture. They are conservative in the sense that they are protective of mainstream ideas and exclusionary against other ideas, and they wield the institutional power to do something about it. The biggest clue is that "free speech", and its advocacy has become a sneer-worthy pre-marginalized tribal identification.
If you want to know what the conservative politics in any western society is, just poll the middle aged women, and find out
what they thinkhow they feel.I can get down with the idea that today's "conservatives" are actually the liberals who don't know they are anything but liberal, but meanwhile, the ones calling themselves conservatives are playing the same game.
Liberals (conservatives really): orthodox as fuck.
Conservatives (basically conserving the America of the 50s): orthodox as fuck.It's a very bad time new ideas.
Do you really think that Conservatives want the country to go back to the 50s? Race? Women’s Lib? Acceptance of homosexuals?
Oh FFS. Yes I have blue hair and think that, give me a break. You know what I meant. If you don't, feel free to replace "50s" with whatever 1-word shorthand you'd prefer for "values, laws, and economic opportunities that were prevalent prior to the introduction of woke shenanigans."
I’m a conservative, and the only thing that I would like to see revived from the 50’s is Radio Dramas. Maybe some of the music, too. A lot of great music gets short shrift to the 60’s.
Church attendance was up higher back then. And aren't you the guy always posting things about Loudoun County public schools? You'd rather have today's public school system, really?
No, but I don’t want the Public Schools of the 50’s either…
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
@LuFins-Dad said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
@Horace said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
It helps to think in terms of conservatism in the abstract, as a defense of the dominant culture. So, cultural conservatives these days are progressives, as that is the entrenched dominant institutional culture. They are conservative in the sense that they are protective of mainstream ideas and exclusionary against other ideas, and they wield the institutional power to do something about it. The biggest clue is that "free speech", and its advocacy has become a sneer-worthy pre-marginalized tribal identification.
If you want to know what the conservative politics in any western society is, just poll the middle aged women, and find out
what they thinkhow they feel.I can get down with the idea that today's "conservatives" are actually the liberals who don't know they are anything but liberal, but meanwhile, the ones calling themselves conservatives are playing the same game.
Liberals (conservatives really): orthodox as fuck.
Conservatives (basically conserving the America of the 50s): orthodox as fuck.It's a very bad time new ideas.
Do you really think that Conservatives want the country to go back to the 50s? Race? Women’s Lib? Acceptance of homosexuals?
Oh FFS. Yes I have blue hair and think that, give me a break. You know what I meant. If you don't, feel free to replace "50s" with whatever 1-word shorthand you'd prefer for "values, laws, and economic opportunities that were prevalent prior to the introduction of woke shenanigans."
I’m a conservative, and the only thing that I would like to see revived from the 50’s is Radio Dramas. Maybe some of the music, too. A lot of great music gets short shrift to the 60’s.
Church attendance was up higher back then. And aren't you the guy always posting things about Loudoun County public schools? You'd rather have today's public school system, really?
No, but I don’t want the Public Schools of the 50’s either…
@LuFins-Dad said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
No, but I don’t want the Public Schools of the 50’s either…
I went to public school during the 50s. My recollection is that it was ok.
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I think it's more the GOP is the party of conservative values. Heck it was the Republicans who freed the slaves and the democrats who were all about segregation until about 50 years ago. Honestly, I'd like the Whig party to come back.
@89th said in Riley Gaines testifies - and offends:
Honestly, I'd like the Whig party to come back.
It's not a whig, it's a fucking comb-over, OK?
