Yup, the difference between "liberals" in this sense and non-liberals is having actual material interests at stake that go beyond the legal abstraction of freedom, which is only a means to an end
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IAmDeathRay and
And honestly one of the major reasons the Democrats are losing is this insistence on fair play and sportsmanship, like this is a game and not a battle for survival The West Wing having Bartlett make sure to appoint a conservative and a liberal to balance the Supreme Court
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @WaPoMax and
No, you're being Jed Bartlett from TWW now, learn to read
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IAmDeathRay and
You're embodying everything bad about that show, all the wanking about liberty and freedom and the Bill of Rights and the democratic process, all the sneering about protesters who take things too far and don't see how silly they sound to normal people
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Replying to @arthur_affect @WaPoMax and
Haven't evoked any of that (tho' I'll keep the Bill of Rights if you don't mind--- sorry you find that sweater too itchy, comrade). No, what I've said is that people should be able to tweet a harmless observation about a piece of law under debate in their country--
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @arthur_affect and
-- and not lose their job. But again, YOU have made it clear that if you offend an obnoxious fringe group, not only should you lose your job, but your life as well.
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @WaPoMax and
I never killed a racist nor do I condone racists being killed but if a racist does get shot you can't force me to send flowers to the funeral The fact that you can't, in fact, IS FREEDOM OF SPEECH
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Replying to @arthur_affect @WaPoMax and
The fact that you confuse race and religion makes you a perfect liberal. The fact that you raised a fist for the murderers makes you a perfect a-hole.
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @arthur_affect and
Arthur doesn't conflate being Muslim with being a person of color. White people do that. Constantly. Recognizing that white people turned "Muslim" into a racist dogwhistle isn't equivalent to actually using it as such.
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Charlie Hebdo's caricatures weren't of people's "religious" characteristics
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