adamgreer said: "qolbinau said: "icecreambenjamin said: "Liza's Headband said: "I have zero issue with LuPones comments and agree with them. That being said, I would hope you'd all offer the same support of free speech to those conservative/republican entertainers out there (a small number exist). I have no tolerance for hypocrisy and double standards -- so let's hope you all afford the same allowance to entertainers of an opposing political view, as infuriating as many may find it. Including myself.
I will not respect nor will I support anyone who pledges their allegiance to Trump. By giving your support to such a vile human being, you are telling me that you are a complete and total xenophobe, homophobe, rascist, and frankly, an easily manipulated moronic coward. I have no interest in the opinions of intolerant bigots. My a$$ is and will remain intolerant to intolerance.
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I actually wonder if it is attitudes and responses like this that contributed to the election outcome. When you want to change attitudes do you think it will be more effective to carefully listen to what people say and then attempt to unemotionally portray a counter argument or do you think it'd be better to shout them down as a bigot or (as so many people in the ultra left do these days) attempt to actually silence the discussion (which I find ironically fascist).
It's hard because many people don't seem to be willing to actually listen to others or new ideas (e.g., Trump is among the worst offenders for this, or look at the primary debate on this forum where instead of actually listening, acknowledging and discussing flaws in Hillary some people proceeded to engage in the most childish and unintellectual name calling that was ageist and nationalist, and also accuse people who were (it seems) rightly critical of Hillary (vs Bernie) as being sexist.
Calling people bigots and then leaving at that will not change attitudes or voting behaviour. We do need to genuinely listen to others and engage in a dialogue.
Love that Patti speaks her mind and I wonder what Ebersole thinks about this. When asked about the election in the past she has deflected.
You of all people should not talk about listening and then offering unemotional rebuttals. Or do you want me to find some of the old Bernie/ Hillary threads you used to post in?
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Yes I actually do - I took pride in almost never resulting to name calling or talking about irrelevant factors (e.g., nationality, age etc.) despite the ridiculous posts by the likes of PalJoey in particular. I think towards the end of it I might have started to question some of the intellectual capability and education of some of the posters on this forum when it became clear that it was very difficult to actually have a conversation with some of them. And maybe you can find an occasional slip up. But in general, I took pride in not resorting to irrelevant personal attacks and actually trying to discuss the issues at hand (e.g., Hillary hiding her speeches that later were leaked and did her no favours; Hillary's voting record on issues such as the Iraq War and recently flip flopping on many of the major issues such as gay marriage and trade policies; polling results showing during the primary that Hillary might actually lose to Trump and that Bernie was the best choice; the general perception of not supporting the interests of working families based on many of the donation sources, her Wall Street speeches and changed voting record as criticised by Elizabeth Warren; pointing out that Bernie's policies are actually not 'pie in the sky' by world standards and have shown to be effective in many other parts of the world).
The response of many posters to these ideas was very disappointing. I wonder where we would be right now if Bernie slip through - Patti might never have had to have made this comment (maybe she would, but maybe she wouldn't). The one thing we can be sure was that Hillary was not the right nominee though.
Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.
Updated On: 5/20/17 at 07:40 PM