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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I'm sure almost all those people don't mind having their opinions challenged. What they're pushing back against is being morally denounced for expressing opinions contrary to the newly-minted orthodoxies of the far left. The fact so many activists feel moral denunciation is the natural and necessary response to opinions they disagree with is the heart of the problem. When a movement becomes something akin to a secular religion, alarm bells start going off in the minds of a lot of liberals.
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I'm sure almost all people don't mind having their opinions challenged. What they're pushing back against is being morally denounced for expressing opinions contrary to the entrenched orthodoxies of the far right. The fact so many activists (nee extremists) feel moral denunciation is the natural and necessary response to opinions they disagree with is the heart of the problem. When a movement becomes something akin to a secular religion, alarm bells should have started going off in the minds of a lot of conservatives almost 50 years ago.
If only an entire political party had not sold its collective soul to climb into bed with evangelicals, and many extremist sects of that religious belief, to guarantee their hold on power and own the south where ignorance is prevalent.