{"id":2486,"date":"2012-09-04T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/09\/can-you-feel-the-liberal-love.html"},"modified":"2012-09-04T11:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T11:12:00","slug":"can-you-feel-the-liberal-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/09\/can-you-feel-the-liberal-love.html","title":{"rendered":"Can you feel the liberal love?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

One of the unspoken, yet frequently referenced, super-narratives of our age is that liberals are by definition good, kind, tolerant, loving, caring, sophisticated, and peaceful.\u00a0 Conservatives are, by contrast, evil, stupid, violent, boorish, intolerant, judgemental, self-righteous, ignorant, and cold-hearted in their love of money and warfare.\u00a0 So it is that when violence erupts in some random fashion, it isn\u2019t unheard of to hear media pundits assume that it must be because of some conservative group or individual.\u00a0 We all know what I mean there.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Of course this is hogwash.\u00a0 There are just as many good conservatives and there are just as many evil, violent, hateful, intolerant liberals.\u00a0 And vice versa.\u00a0 Nonetheless, the narrative that our media culture would rather us have, aided by our entertainment institutions and educational systems, is that those who cling to old ways are the mischief, and those who in fact press forward by challenging the status quo<\/em> are ever and always the good guys.\u00a0 Well, dont\u2019 expect to see endless weeks of media pundits discussing this fellow whose picture is making the rounds on the Internet, for otherwise the above narratives would\u00a0be shaken, and we can\u2019t have any of that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Shirt reads: Exterminate One Christian at a Time.\u00a0 In professional lettering no less. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the unspoken, yet frequently referenced, super-narratives of our age is that liberals are by definition good, kind, tolerant, loving, caring, sophisticated, and peaceful.\u00a0 Conservatives are, by contrast, evil, stupid, violent, boorish, intolerant, judgemental, self-righteous, ignorant, and cold-hearted in their love of money and warfare.\u00a0 So it is that when violence erupts in some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nCan you feel the liberal love?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"One of the unspoken, yet frequently referenced, super-narratives of our age is that liberals are by definition good, kind, tolerant, loving, caring,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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