Conservative at Brown?

mgcsinc
Tue, 07 Dec 2010 08:47:47 +0000

(I graduated from Brown in '08)

truzzi182, you completely misunderstood my point. My last sentence was supposed to make it clear that I wasn’t intending a personal attack, but apparently I didn’t do a good enough job. All I was trying to do is say that if you engage in a particular type of denial of truth, you won’t do well at Brown. I have no reason to think that you do that, other than the use of what I consider to be a loaded term.

“I suppose that I could simply turn your argument around on you and tell you that anything you label as ‘conservative bias’ is simply a truth that you wish to deny.”

I’ve never used the term ‘conservative bias’. That was exactly my point. We (liberals, writ large) don’t engage in that sort of labeling. The term ‘liberal bias’ produces 1.6 million google results; ‘conservative bias’ produces 250,000. Projects like conservapedia exist. FOX News exists (although MSNBC is now on the verge of catching up with it). As a practical matter, the accusations of bias go overwhelmingly in one direction.

“The fact that you fail to recognize that and labeled your side as the ‘truth’ is not only close-minded and big-headed, but also carries a sense of elitism and bigotry.”

Again, you completely misconstrue what I said. I never said that liberal=true. I simply said that some subgroup of people who call themselves ‘conservatives’ use frequent accusations of ‘liberal bias’ to attack truths that they don’t like. I would be surprised if there were anyone smart enough to be hanging out on the Brown forum who could, in good faith, disagree with that assertion.

On a personal note: I go to law school with arch-conservatives, some of whom are my good friends. I have an honestly-held belief that some of those people will be the leaders of the Republican party 20 years from now. If you think that those intelligent conservatives waste their time watching trashy FOX News reporting or throwing around accusations of ‘liberal bias’, you are sadly mistaken.