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In reply to the discussion: Do you buy into the entire "liberal agenda?" [View all]AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)Indeed, liberals come in many stripes, and hold many different views.
For example:
1.)Just because one may be more critical of the President, compared to the average, does not mean they do not respect him.
2.)Just because one may not like Edward Snowden, or how he did things, doesn't mean that one doesn't have concerns about the problems with the NSA.
3.)Just because one doesn't believe that climate change is necessarily going to destroy the planet/civilization, or that humanity is headed for likely/inevitable destruction/permanent decline, etc., doesn't mean that one cannot be concerned for the state of the environment, or that one wants no action against global warming.(and yes, the opposite is true as well: someone who may sometimes feel pessimistic about the state of climate action, etc. it doesn't mean that they are a nutty Guy McPherson-esque doomer.)
4.)Just because one may be disillusioned with the Democratic Party sometimes, doesn't mean that they are lukewarm fair-weather liberals or whatever.
5.)Just because one may support the State of Israel, in and of itself, does not mean that they support the abuse of Palestinians, or corruption in the IDF, or bigotry amongst certain factions in the Knesset(Likudniks, specifically, and other hard rightist parties there), etc.(and just because one is critical of Israel, that does not necessarily make them a raving anti-Semite)
6.)Just because one may be critical of some things that some more radical feminists may do or say, does not mean they are a secret MRA, or that they hate women, etc.(and just because a few feminists may act nasty towards men they don't like, that doesn't make all feminists bad people. At all. I should know, btw, because I am a feminist.)
7.)And just because someone may hold some truly out-of-left-field views, that doesn't necessarily mean that they are on DU to cause trouble, or that they're crazy, etc.
So, anyway, that's really it. TL;DR-placing people into boxes really doesn't work. Let's just try to respect our ideological diversity for what it is.