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The Decidedly Non-Liberal Way Some Liberals Act

My mindset appears to be in a void where few other minds venture.  Knowing people with similar mindsets on Google+ is comforting, but I am still aware that my way of thinking is extremely rare.

You see, in many ways, I am a super-liberal.  I am a vegetarian, an environmentalist, and an atheist, among other things.  I support marriage equality and of course women's equality.  So far, so good.  However, there are some things that mark me as very different from many liberals.  I call things as I see them.  I am objective and do not tailor my response to somebody based on that person's race, sex, or class.  I glorify mockery when it is warranted.  I am respectful towards things that are not worthy of ridicule, but I am not politically correct simply for the sake of it.

I am definitely not on the conservative side of the spectrum, but there are times when I agree with some conservatives over some liberals.  And the kinds of liberals who are becoming more and more annoying and dangerous are the ones who favor political correctness over freedom.  Below this paragraph is a link to an article talking about someone who lost a job at a liberal newspaper and got threats from college students simply for writing a satirical piece lampooning those who think of the entire world in terms of a struggle against the "privileged".  The "privileged" is not just "the 1%", but includes all white people, all men, all straight people, all cisgendered (i.e. non-transgendered) people, and more.  Thus, 99% of the world's population would appear to be "privileged", but some more than others.  And this "privilege" means that one cannot ever win an argument against a less-privileged person.  The "privileged" one must be biased, after all.  Interestingly, many of these breed of liberals are high-class people enrolled in private universities...but not all.  Upon posting some "inconvenient truth" on Facebook, I was criticized by a friend whom I went to (public) university with, just as much about my "privilege" as about the content of my actual post.  (That is just one reason of many why I prefer Google+.)  Anyway, the link to the story is below:

Vandalized: Residence of U-M Student Who Dared to Mock Trigger Warnings.
http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/15/social-justice-bandits-vandalize-apartme

Here is the entire satirical article that Omar Mahmood wrote:
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/20236/

I believe that these kinds of liberals are taking over liberalism, to the detriment of society.  Conversations are stifled while censorship is growing.  Some policies which old-school liberals might have been able to get behind are now either off limits entirely or only the domain of conservatives.  While I hate most conservative stances, I feel that some liberals pose just as great a danger to the truly freedom-loving liberal cause.

This post was inspired by Techni Myoko's post at the link below:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+TanyaMyoko/posts/6PrJhs2Va4i

That post contained this article:

I’m fed up with political correctness, and the idea that everyone should already be perfect.
http://qz.com/335941/im-fed-up-with-political-correctness-and-the-idea-that-everyone-should-already-be-perfect/

And that article referred to this article:

Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say: How the language police are perverting liberalism.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html

And that is where I found out about what Omar Mahmood had to go through.

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