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05/30/2003 Archived Entry: "A primer in discrimination against us GOPers"

THOSE A*@!^#$! REPUBLICANS!: Willy Stern has a great piece about the casual bigotry that Republicans face from the supposedly tolerant left. He's able to pass for a Democrat because he is a Jew and in the simplified world of leftists, that means "he's one of us." Unfortunately for them, he's not and he's outing himself publicly as Republican and providing some observations about the left.

When somebody makes a prejudicial comment about Republicans in my presence, I play a private game. I replay the sentence in my mind—only I substitute a word like "black" or "lesbian" or "Mexican" in place of the word "Republican." In performing this verbal sleight-of-hand, it becomes increasingly apparent that the speaker of the sentence may harbor views not generally considered to be tolerant or open-minded.

Read on. Warning, some bad language.

Replies: 3 comments

I get something similar all the time, because I have a sense of humour. "But you're so funny, how can you be conservative?" The unstated next sentence: "You must be self-deluded. I KNOW you're just kidding me."

Posted by Kathy @ 05/30/2003 04:07 PM EST

I learned a long time ago just to shut my mouth. Women aren't attracted to conservatives and it takes too long to explain the "rock and roll" conservative ethos to them.

Posted by Steve Martinovich @ 05/30/2003 04:37 PM EST

It's a paradox: Polls show that conservatives outnumber liberals - at least here in the States, I'm not sure what the breakdown is in Canada - yet by default, it is considered better form to blurt out a liberal opinion in casual conversation rather than a conservative one.

I wonder why that is.

Posted by W. James Antle III @ 05/31/2003 04:59 PM EST