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Liberals, in & out of government, are the primary pushers of this agenda.
I have none in particular.
Lied? What is your basis for this?
The Latin origin is an interesting historical curiosity, but language evolves, & "liberal" means what it means as we use it today. Certainly, this meaning is murky
Why not?
That is simply not true. Many Conservatives are not racist, while some Liberals are. While it's true because of background and heritage differences the Conservatives will produce more racist by merit that they are predominate in the Southern states, and of the strong discrimination towards racial minorities that still exist in the South that still linger from the days of slavery. But to say there are no racists among Liberals is simply absurd. And after all, the term Liberal itself is a very broad term, as is the term Conservative.
The OWS protests are the worst thing that could have happened to the corporate press and corporate-sponsored conservatives. If it wasn't for the occupations, these clowns running for the Republican nomination, would not be confronted by any questions regarding fairness of their "flat tax" proposals. This is the first sign that a grassroots movement and alternative press can crack through the bubble imposed by big business!
Speaking as someone who was mostly conservative until recent years, my reasons for shifting and going radical are not because of racism and other ills that linger on with the support of appeals to traditional virtues -- my reasons for leaving the reservation are imposed by the new reality we are seeing unfold before our very eyes - here's an example from yesterday:Biggest jump ever seen in global warming gases
It won't be that bad. While we do need environmental regulations and protections, and there really isn't any good argument against switching to green energy, the globe has been warmer and the ice sheets have been much smaller than they are today. And the homo genus seemed to do just fine through periods of global heat and cold.
I don't want to drift too far into environment issues here, but the reality is that we already have to go back 15 million years before we have a time where atmospheric CO2 levels were at their present level -- getting dangerously close to 400 ppm. And the increase we've caused is at a much more accelerated rate than anything that has happened in the past. We already have at least one degree increase in average global temperature -- already in the pipeline, about to happen even if CO2 levels didn't rise.
I really wish it were so. White privilege is still very strong in our society, as is male privilege. Homosexuals can be fired in some states just for being so, and in many states transsexuals can be evicted from their homes just for being so. We make life hard for even legal immigrants, and although blacks do not actually commit more crimes, they are more heavily watched, arrested, prosecuted, and even put do death far more frequently than their white counterparts. Even just admitting you're an atheist can carry some negative social repercussions. But then again, most white male Christians are unaware of the equality in America, as it is something they don't see on a regular basis. Many white women are unaware of white privilege, but many also have a good idea since they deal with unequal treatment for being women.
It's hard to say it's all from modern times, when a warming trend has been noted for about 100 years now. We have done our damage, but the earth goes through it's own periods in which it has been worse than it is now. But I don't see anything short of a mass-extinction even coming close to being a near-extinction for humans. Societies like ours would crumble and suffer heavy losses, but some cultures and people are more adaptable than others.
I can agree with everything here! I know that from my own pov as a middle-aged, white male, living in Canada, I didn't view myself as living a life of privilege, and on wider issues, I was always bewildered by anti-Americanism that pops up in Latin America and Asia.....until I met a new neighbour 10 years ago (through our kids) who was originally from Guatemala, and had to flee with his family from the Contra death squads across into Mexico during his youth. That started me looking up a little more about how power (both commercial and military) is projected throughout Latin America under the patronage of U.S. governments going back more than a century.
Many so called global warming skeptics pull out a period of time in Earth's history 55 million years ago, when temperatures dramatically spiked during a brief period in geologic history. This anomaly is known as the PETM, and I am not sure how this serves as any argument for doing nothing, since there were widespread extinctions and mass migrations. In fact, if humans had been living on Earth then...and had built the cities and roads that block off animal migration routes today, the catastrophic warming in the Tropical Zone would have killed off all of the plants and animals that had been living in that area at the time. A number of paleontologists believe now that for several thousand years the Tropics were a dead zone, with virtually no plants or animals because of average daily high temperatures of over 140 degrees F.