(Cross-posted)
Just a few days ago, I note that few conservatives are intellectually honest enough to acknowledge that arguments against political correctness are arguments against social pressure.
So today I read a post at Red State that more explicitly demonstrates that flaw. The sins of the left?
The result of this loss of vision is a slide towards a new kind of tyranny. In traditional tyrannies, deviation from the sacred doctrine is punishable by imprisonment or worse. That's not what this is. It's more akin to what we find in most religions: where deviation from the expected norm is punished with guilt and ostracism and absolved with some kind of repentance. (Editors note: bolding added)
Poor fucking baby! You've been called on being a dipshit and you can't take it. I'm full of fucking sympathy. Lord, is this the kind of pathetic, lily livered baby that calls himself a modern conservative? Suck it up Junior. Get a haircut and get a backbone. I'm sure there are some bootstraps somewhere you can pull yourself up by.
Anyway, it gets worse:
The increasingly secular left has no problem criticizing the proselytizing of religious people -- in this context, nobody should "force their views on others." Yet, how would they defend columns like this one, telling liberals that they must either be vegetarians or face whatever the left's version of Purgatory is.
What a fucking jackass. Okay, let me say it slowly...
Ready...
In that the left has a problem with private proselytizing by the religions, it is a matter of distaste. Like the vegetarianism argument, those of us who disagree may argue. Or we may ignore it. Maybe it'll even piss us off (I've spent more then enough time bitching about PETA).
But when the left complains about "forc[ing] their views on others", most of the time we are complaining about the power of the State. Once a religion moves from knocking on a door or handing out a leaflet to having the police knock on your door or having the Congress mail out a leaflet, we have problems.
Now I would normally assume that the author would know this and is just intentionally finessing the issue to score political points. Particularly with a name like LibertarianHawk. I mean, how fucking dumb would you have to be as a libertarian not to understand governmental action. I mean I have problems with that philosophy, but at least they understand the difference between social pressure and governmental coercion. In fact, where I a libertarian, I'd be particularly insulted by his user name.
Good fucking lord, if this is what the other side has to offer, then we on the left really are completely morally, ethically and intellectually superior.