Even a liberal blog site acknowledges a recent Pew study that shows
28% of liberals block versus
16% of conservatives and
14% for moderates.
Pew: Liberals most intolerant online
http://hotair.com/archives/20...
http://www.pewinternet.org/Re...
http://www.damndirtyrino.com/...
I thought it was common knowledge that liberals are more intolerant of others who are different.
Who is more tolerant online liberals or conservatives? The Unblocked Version.
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I am blocked so I wrote my own poll and I block no one. You will at least get an honest poll here, so your vote counts, unlike on the blocker blogs. Please rave this poll to increase readership. Thank you.
In my experience when I question anything, I tend to get more insults and rude dismissals from Republicans than Liberals.
Which is not to say that all Liberals are tolerant either...
It is a great shame that there can't be a respectful to an fro of ideas and arguments, for without that cross pollination man is doomed to keep on making the same mistakes over and over again.
Conservatives are only tolerant when they share your opinion same with liberals .
I am going with who blocks me more often and that is conservatives .
Liberals tend to visualize the world as they would like it to be, without much regard for the dirty details or side effects of their vision. Conservatives tend to reject anything that will ultimately disturb things that currently work. Neither has much concern about imposing consequences on "somebody else". The definition of "somebody else" is different, but the concept remains the same.
For any liberal initiative, it's very easy for conservatives to find real facts and confront liberals with them. All of this appears as "noise" to liberals because to them, it's all about the vision, not the side effects. After all, if the vision becomes reality, nobody will care about the side effects.
For example, consider health care reform. It's a great concept; the current system is clearly broken. Obamacare? Lousy implementation; it leaves almost the entire problem intact while introducing problems we didn't have before. Conservatives blast the implementation, starting with the individual mandate and continuing with the hidden abortion mandate, the mysterious waiver process, and the non-solution for pre-existing conditions. Liberals tune out the "noi...
Liberals tend to visualize the world as they would like it to be, without much regard for the dirty details or side effects of their vision. Conservatives tend to reject anything that will ultimately disturb things that currently work. Neither has much concern about imposing consequences on "somebody else". The definition of "somebody else" is different, but the concept remains the same.
For any liberal initiative, it's very easy for conservatives to find real facts and confront liberals with them. All of this appears as "noise" to liberals because to them, it's all about the vision, not the side effects. After all, if the vision becomes reality, nobody will care about the side effects.
For example, consider health care reform. It's a great concept; the current system is clearly broken. Obamacare? Lousy implementation; it leaves almost the entire problem intact while introducing problems we didn't have before. Conservatives blast the implementation, starting with the individual mandate and continuing with the hidden abortion mandate, the mysterious waiver process, and the non-solution for pre-existing conditions. Liberals tune out the "noise", thinking that Obamacare is simply the first attempt, to be refined over time to deliver the ultimate vision of socialized medicine.
Conservatives block when they can't deal with emotional/visionary liberals who try to dance around unpleasant reality or make up facts to suit their position.
Liberals block when they can't deal with the "noise", even though it might be the reality of what has already happened or pessimistic predictions of what they propose. They think their visions will work out just fine if people can ignore the side effects long enough to appreciate the benefits. For example: Has Social Security helped millions of retirees or is it the world's largest pyramid scheme? Visionaries see the benefits for past and current retirees, but people in their 30's are looking at decades of payroll taxes for the privilege of being victimized by a pyramid scheme. Both groups have a point, but we differ about the ultimate vision and the reality of implementation.
yese there are some Lib's that do debate without the attack syndrom, that seems to run rampant amoung Most Lib's...which always seem to happen when asked to provide facts..
IRL I have been shouted down by liberals on more than one occasion. Actually shouting. I have had people call me names WHILE calling ME intolerant.