"Top five cliches that liberals use to avoid real arguments"

[ErikJ]

This is great comment to Jonah Goldberg's op-ed in the WaPo, " Top five cliches that liberals use to avoid real arguments"

The op-ed is from April 27 and the comments are closed but for some reason it is listed as today's most popular op-ed on WaPo's Opinion page!? How can that be?


What's liberal and conservative? What's conservative and liberal?
For comparison, cosider talking points of the Nazis and you tell me who they sound like:
by CharasmaticMegafauna

Short Guide To Nazi Propaganda Talking Points
>>Things The Nazi Were Against:
Trade unions
Communists
"Social justice"
"Liberals"
"The liberal press"
"Socialism"
"Socialists"
"Democrats"
"Social Democrats"
"Civil Rights"
Empathy
Compromise
Homosexuals
Pacifists
Atheists
Secularists
Feminists
Pornography
Religious tolerance
Mixed marriages
Contraception
Sex education
Immigrants
Multiculturalism
Bilingual anything
Higher education except for political loyalists
Art that does not glorify the state
Darwin and teaching evolution
Einstein
Elementary teachers who don't teach nationalism
Any role except motherhood for women
University professors
People who don't support the troops
...and of course Jews

>>Things The Nazi Were For:
Pre-emptive war
State religion
Conspiracy theories
Control of the press, constant repetition of party slogans
Abolishing city governments, putting them under state control
Undermining voter's faith in elections and parliament
Reducing history to broad populist themes of white victimization
Claiming whites are the victims of racist liberals
A "spiritual" movement that creates ruthless, unwavering violence
Values education in the schools
Censorship
Reducing science education
Replacing college professors with right wing stooges
Torture
Abstinence
Early marriage
High birth rate
State control of the media, arts, and science
Personality cults
Making nationalism part of the school curriculum
Appointing businessmen to run schools
Worship of an idealized version of the past
Rebellion against "weak" authority
Blaming minorities and immigrants for everything
Invoking destiny and being judged by history
Pandering to Christians
“Positive Christianity”
Promising the cooperation of church and state
Claiming to do "God's will"


Oh yeah, "Top 5 Cliches......

‘Diversity is strength’

‘Violence never solved anything’

‘The living Constitution’

‘Social Darwinism’

and 'Better 10 guilty men go free .?.?.’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/top-five-cliches-liberals-use-to-avoid-real-arguments/2012/04/27/gIQAFR1zlT_story_2.html

[NYC_SKP]

1. "cosider talking points of the Nazis"????

Alrighty, then!

Let's go!



ETA, can you give us a link?

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Where's the biscuit ? or the five top cliches ?

are you a freeper?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. I am going with #3

[NYC_SKP]

4. The top five cliches are these:

‘Diversity is strength’

‘Violence never solved anything’

‘The living Constitution’

‘Social Darwinism’

and 'Better 10 guilty men go free .?.?.’

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/top-five-cliches-liberals-use-to-avoid-real-arguments/2012/04/27/gIQAFR1zlT_story_2.html

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. thanks for the list and the link. n/t

[ErikJ]

6. Thanks - I got lazy .

If you figure out how, being 2 months old it, can be the most popular op-ed today let me know. There must be a conservative website link to it today, eh?

[hyphenate]

7. Jonah Goldberg

is an ass-wiping, bigoted conservative. I wouldn't read his writing for any good reason at all. There is nothing redemptive about anything he would have to say.

[sabrina 1]

8. Okay, I had to read this a few times to get what you were saying.

You might want to put the comment in quotes, or excerpt it to make clear that the list was not from Goldberg. When I first read the OP I thought that Jonah Goldberg was the one supplying the Nazi Talking Points.

Now I see that list came from the comment section and yes, it was a good response to his garbage.

I wonder why they shut down the comments?