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It must have been hard narrowing the list down to 10

Feb 13, 2011 18:19

10 Historical 'Facts' Only a Right-Winger Could Believe
Facts, including historical ones, are 'biased' against the right's worldview.

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eugenics, capitalism, former presidents, social security, business, history, birth control, ussr, evolution, socialism, catholicism, michele bachmann, womens rights, civil rights, martin luther king jr., slavery, sarah palin / palin family

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ms_maree February 14 2011, 00:28:38 UTC

With number 9 I thought it was the arms race with the United States which did in the Soviet Union, the Submarine fleet wasn't cheap.

And everyone needs to get over number 2 ASAP, evolution is a fact. It never ceases to amaze me that educated people in the world's leading country still think some book written by various people 2,000 years ago (or more) trumps you know, scientific fact.

gundamtsubasa February 14 2011, 06:18:14 UTC

Yeah, in order to get submarines that dived deeper than any others, they used an insanely expensive titanium alloy hull for their Alfa class submarines.

bmh4d0k3n February 14 2011, 00:35:47 UTC

My grandfather wasn't so hot on FDR and thought some of the long-term effects of the New Deal weren't so good. Idek.

baked_goldfish February 14 2011, 03:02:04 UTC

Did I miss it, or did the article just not mention the internment camps?

mollywobbles867 February 14 2011, 00:39:12 UTC

Facts have a liberal bias.

bees_beads February 14 2011, 00:58:33 UTC

That reminds me - I was once debating with an far-right winger and literally every time I cited a fact that gave his claims less merit he would freak out and claim that everything I was saying was a lie made up by the liberals. It was the most frustrating experience of my life.

purple01_prose February 14 2011, 01:23:29 UTC

This is what my father does whenever we debate politics. ALL THE FREAKING TIME.

Then he jokes that I'll change my mind once I start paying taxes, ha ha. >.

ellenel13 February 14 2011, 01:30:30 UTC

Paying taxes has yet to turn me into a neocon.

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fizzy_pepsi February 14 2011, 00:46:19 UTC

I'm really confused about one thing in particular...since when did Freud, who was born 3 years before Origin of Species was published, come before Darwinism?

notgarystu February 14 2011, 01:07:13 UTC

Since conservatives started practicing Magic History.

turkeybeer February 14 2011, 06:16:25 UTC

lol

sitakhet February 14 2011, 00:56:14 UTC

Don't forget all the bullshit they believe about Native-Colonist relations. Even Canadians have issues with that stuff.

azetburcaptain February 14 2011, 05:12:02 UTC

Yes, so many issues. That it's not even taught properly in school* is another thing, but I'd rather not make too many people angry tonight.

* depends on the school, province, but I'm not including post-secondary education in this