Generalization vs definition
"He doesn't shower much and want to live in a tent"
"Why"
"He's a hippie"
"That's just a generalization!"
My wife has a friend that expressed that indignation at me a little while ago. This was before I found out she was a real life hippie back in the days. I found her response really funny, but I have seen it before. I have made complaints about liberals to liberals, and they claim I am generalizing. Liberals, as the term is used today, are a group of people consistantly on the wrong side of any arguement. To be this consistantly wrong you must have serious flaws in the way you think and reason. So, by definition, there are many terms that some may find offensive, but still fit a liberal.
Another part of this issue is when they turn it around, and take a definition, and call it a generalization. For example, on liberal, someone was trying to claim the definition of "freedom" is debatable; in other words, he claimed our idea of freedom was our generaliztion, and others can have different views. (This was in reference to muslim countries lack there of).
"Why"
"He's a hippie"
"That's just a generalization!"
My wife has a friend that expressed that indignation at me a little while ago. This was before I found out she was a real life hippie back in the days. I found her response really funny, but I have seen it before. I have made complaints about liberals to liberals, and they claim I am generalizing. Liberals, as the term is used today, are a group of people consistantly on the wrong side of any arguement. To be this consistantly wrong you must have serious flaws in the way you think and reason. So, by definition, there are many terms that some may find offensive, but still fit a liberal.
Another part of this issue is when they turn it around, and take a definition, and call it a generalization. For example, on liberal, someone was trying to claim the definition of "freedom" is debatable; in other words, he claimed our idea of freedom was our generaliztion, and others can have different views. (This was in reference to muslim countries lack there of).