Why are liberals so annoying?

[Siro]

I consider myself VERY socially progressive. Most of my friends are politically indifferent, but hold liberal-leaning views (typical in scientific fields). However, I know some moderate Mormons that I consider conservative leaning, and a couple of Berkeley types hyper liberals. Out of all the groups that I know, the latter is the one that annoys me the most. I don't hang out with any hardcore conservatives, so I don't know much about their personality. But the discussions I get into with my hard-left friends blow my ****ing mind. Here is a sample of discussions I've had in the past week.

Yesterday, I spent an hour arguing that white people are not specially racist (current generation). But they'd hear none of it. White people are terrible racists. End of story! A few days earlier, I had to defend the idea that human beings are far more intelligent than any other species on earth. You would think that this is so damn obvious, that it would be beyond reasonable discussion. But nope, not to them. Just look how intelligent that dog is! He totally understands what I'm saying. That's a good boy.

That is not to mention the countless debates on how awesome communism is. Or the endless bitching about this technology or that (nuclear power, GM crops, etc).

I thought I'd share. :-D

 

[Scat]

I find that many liberals are very open minded as long as you agree with everything they think and say. I'd say more but don't want to flame the hatred.

 

[Stoked]

I find that many liberals are very open minded as long as you agree with everything they think and say. I'd say more but don't want to flame the hatred.

That is the problem with liberals (which I think is different than a left leaning individual). They know better than you. No matter what it is, they know how you should behave and what you should do better than you do.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

I find that many conservatives are very open minded as long as you agree with everything they think and say. I'd say more but don't want to flame the hatred.

You can interchange these words and the sentence still holds true.

 

[larryselbows]

I think what everyone in here is discussing are the extreme-o's. Every party has them. The nice ones you just don't notice.

 

[Stoked]

You can interchange these words and the sentence still holds true.

You could change that word with most anything, democrats, mormons, baptists, hispanics, whites, blacks, jews, enviromentalists, tea partiers, occupy movement, americans, russians, chinese...

 

[utahjazz107]

It's fair to say both extremities have their flaws. Very conservative people are extremely narrowed minded and think they are the only people on the earth while very liberal people are extremely open minded and believe the world is corrupt. I guess in some sense both are entitled to their own opinion but when someone tells me they're "VERY" liberal or conservative, it makes me laugh

 

[franklin]

Yesterday, I spent an hour arguing that white people are not specially racist (current generation). But they'd hear none of it. White people are terrible racists. End of story! A few days earlier, I had to defend the idea that human beings are far more intelligent than any other species on earth. You would think that this is so damn obvious, that it would be beyond reasonable discussion. But nope, not to them. Just look how intelligent that dog is! He totally understands what I'm saying. That's a good boy.

That's pretty funny, SiroMar. Do you think it's because you relate to them more than conservatives and have closer comradere that they come off more annoying? Like you expect better of them?

 

[Stoked]

It's fair to say both extremities have their flaws. Very conservative people are extremely narrowed minded and think they are the only people on the earth while very liberal people are extremely open minded and believe the world is corrupt. I guess in some sense both are entitled to their own opinion but when someone tells me they're "VERY" liberal or conservative, it makes me laugh

Like hell lol

 

[Scat]

It's fair to say both extremities have their flaws. Very conservative people are extremely narrowed minded and think they are the only people on the earth while very liberal people are extremely open minded and believe the world is corrupt. I guess in some sense both are entitled to their own opinion but when someone tells me they're "VERY" liberal or conservative, it makes me laugh

So much so that their brain has fallen out... They are only very opened minded until you disagree with them.

 

[Siro]

That's pretty funny, SiroMar. Do you think it's because you relate to them more than conservatives and have closer comradere that they come off more annoying? Like you expect better of them?

That's probably true at some level. But I think there is something inherently annoying about them nevertheless. When conservatives say something I find absurd, it usually comes off as paranoid and divisive. Liberals come off as smug and dismissive. I deal with liberals far more, so I'm angry at them much more often.

 

[NAOS]

I consider myself VERY socially progressive. Most of my friends are politically indifferent, but hold liberal-leaning views (typical in scientific fields). However, I know some moderate Mormons that I consider conservative leaning, and a couple of Berkeley types hyper liberals. Out of all the groups that I know, the latter is the one that annoys me the most. I don't hang out with any hardcore conservatives, so I don't know much about their personality. But the discussions I get into with my hard-left friends blow my ****ing mind. Here is a sample of discussions I've had in the past week.

Yesterday, I spent an hour arguing that white people are not specially racist (current generation). But they'd hear none of it. White people are terrible racists. End of story! A few days earlier, I had to defend the idea that human beings are far more intelligent than any other species on earth. You would think that this is so damn obvious, that it would be beyond reasonable discussion. But nope, not to them. Just look how intelligent that dog is! He totally understands what I'm saying. That's a good boy.

That is not to mention the countless debates on how awesome communism is. Or the endless bitching about this technology or that (nuclear power, GM crops, etc).

I thought I'd share. :-D

You need to be more transparent and divulge the age group you are interacting with. This sounds like stereotypical undergrad love for relativism.

 

[Deleted member 848]

Honestly, I find that both sides are full of morons. When I was younger, I used to be seriously irked by most of my conservative-counterprts; now I've found that many of my friends who liberal, like myself, are equally angering. They do anger me in different ways though; I feel like some of my right-wing counterparts lack logic, whereas some of my left-wing counterparts are smug to a nauseating degree. Neither is better, really.

 

[Siro]

You need to be more transparent and divulge the age group you are interacting with. This sounds like stereotypical undergrad love for relativism.

They range in age between mid 20s to mid 40s. I wish they were just young and naive.

 

[Siro]

Honestly, I find that both sides are full of morons. When I was younger, I used to be seriously irked by most of my conservative-counterprts; now I've found that many of my friends who liberal, like myself, are equally angering. They do anger me in different ways though; I feel like some of my right-wing counterparts lack logic, whereas some of my left-wing counterparts are smug to a nauseating degree. Neither is better, really.

Pretty much what I said. I just said it better.

 

[NAOS]

They range in age between mid 20s to mid 40s. I wish they were just young and naive.

 

[Deleted member 848]

Pretty much what I said. I just said it better.

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I hate you.

 

[Scat]

I find that many conservatives are very open minded as long as you agree with everything they think and say. I'd say more but don't want to flame the hatred.

You can interchange these words and the sentence still holds true.

The difference is that conservatives typically have a known set of values and beliefs and readily admit these up front. Liberals claim to be open minded and accepting of all values and beliefs but only as far as you agree with them in many cases.

 

[Hartsock]

That is the problem with liberals (which I think is different than a left leaning individual). They know better than you. No matter what it is, they know how you should behave and what you should do better than you do.

Liberals and conservatives are all dumb asses, to be either a strong liberal or conservative you have to be fairly illogical and 100% stubborn.

 

[Surely]

I'm just middle of the road, like everyone else who has posted in this thread.