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| | # Pretending that atheism equals intelligence. | | # Pretending that atheism equals intelligence. |
| | # In court decisions, holding in favor of the [[conservative]] side by using [[liberal]] reasons that will be cited for liberal outcomes in ''future'' cases<ref>''See, e.g.'', ''[[Everson v. Board of Education|Everson v. Board of Ed.]]''</ref> | | # In court decisions, holding in favor of the [[conservative]] side by using [[liberal]] reasons that will be cited for liberal outcomes in ''future'' cases<ref>''See, e.g.'', ''[[Everson v. Board of Education|Everson v. Board of Ed.]]''</ref> |
| − | # [[Liberal]]s [[liberal friendship|befriending]] you so that you become liberal. (Conversely, why don't they become [[conservative]]?) | + | # Liberals [[liberal friendship|befriending]] you so that you become liberal. (Conversely, why don't they become [[conservative]]?) |
| | # Citing "live and let live!" except when it comes to praying aloud in school, keeping the money you earn, building on your own property, and every other liberal issue. | | # Citing "live and let live!" except when it comes to praying aloud in school, keeping the money you earn, building on your own property, and every other liberal issue. |
| | # Citing "it doesn't hurt to try!" (In reference to drugs, alcohol, and other immoral behaviors such as premarital sex, worshiping other gods/many gods/no gods, homosexuality, or abortion). | | # Citing "it doesn't hurt to try!" (In reference to drugs, alcohol, and other immoral behaviors such as premarital sex, worshiping other gods/many gods/no gods, homosexuality, or abortion). |
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| | # Smearing your adversary with a highly offensive accusation or insinuation. | | # Smearing your adversary with a highly offensive accusation or insinuation. |
| | # Calling someone a [[racist]] if he criticizes a someone who happens to have a different skin color. | | # Calling someone a [[racist]] if he criticizes a someone who happens to have a different skin color. |
| − | # Demonizing [[conservative]]s and pretending they don't care about regular people. | + | # Demonizing conservatives and pretending they don't care about regular people. |
| | # If you don't like it (something offensive on [[television]]), don't watch it (but they don't seem to go for ''if you don't like [[whale]]s being killed, don't watch them being killed''). | | # If you don't like it (something offensive on [[television]]), don't watch it (but they don't seem to go for ''if you don't like [[whale]]s being killed, don't watch them being killed''). |
| | # Believing the poor are blameless because they have nothing and the rich are to blame because they have everything. | | # Believing the poor are blameless because they have nothing and the rich are to blame because they have everything. |
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| | # Justifying sinful [[lie|lying]] by saying "what they don't know can't hurt them." | | # Justifying sinful [[lie|lying]] by saying "what they don't know can't hurt them." |
| | # Claiming that there exists a [[Separation of Church and State]] in the United States (and citing biased Supreme Court decisions to back themselves up) when in reality there exists no such Separation of Church and state in the constitution, and that the Founding Fathers were mostly Christian themselves. | | # Claiming that there exists a [[Separation of Church and State]] in the United States (and citing biased Supreme Court decisions to back themselves up) when in reality there exists no such Separation of Church and state in the constitution, and that the Founding Fathers were mostly Christian themselves. |
| − | # Stereotyping Christians as aggresive nutjubs unless they conform to liberal policies. | + | # Stereotyping Christians as aggressive nutjubs unless they conform to liberal policies. |
| | # Reveal celebrities supporting a dangerous liberal reform, such as introducing [[same sex marriage]] which implies that it is the right thing to do. | | # Reveal celebrities supporting a dangerous liberal reform, such as introducing [[same sex marriage]] which implies that it is the right thing to do. |
| | # Portray [[feminism]] and women's rights as the same thing. (History reveals the early [[suffragists]] being incredibly different to modern feminism). | | # Portray [[feminism]] and women's rights as the same thing. (History reveals the early [[suffragists]] being incredibly different to modern feminism). |
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| | {{QuoteBox|This article, and many others on a similar line, are a sad demonstration of incipient mental illness. Andrew Schlafly appears to be an educated man - after all, he edited a legal journal which was later edited by [[Barack Obama]] (I assume that Andy's tenure wasn't a result of [[affirmative action]] in favour of the narrow minded and the bigoted) - yet his denunciations of 'liberalism' get ever wilder and more paranoid as his definition of that beknighted state become ever more encompassing.}} | | {{QuoteBox|This article, and many others on a similar line, are a sad demonstration of incipient mental illness. Andrew Schlafly appears to be an educated man - after all, he edited a legal journal which was later edited by [[Barack Obama]] (I assume that Andy's tenure wasn't a result of [[affirmative action]] in favour of the narrow minded and the bigoted) - yet his denunciations of 'liberalism' get ever wilder and more paranoid as his definition of that beknighted state become ever more encompassing.}} |
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| − | The above example (by a non-American) attempts to smear a [[conservative]] by implying that he has a mental illness, reflecting '''liberal trick''' #17 above. To someone unfamiliar with '''liberal tricks''', this can be upsetting and intimidating. But once one realizes that this is a basic trick from the [[liberal]] playbook, its silliness and ineffectiveness becomes obvious. The [[liberal]]'s foolish tactic is then revealed for what it really is. | + | The above example (by a non-American) attempts to smear a conservative by implying that he has a mental illness, reflecting '''liberal trick''' #17 above. To someone unfamiliar with '''liberal tricks''', this can be upsetting and intimidating. But once one realizes that this is a basic trick from the liberal playbook, its silliness and ineffectiveness becomes obvious. The liberal's foolish tactic is then revealed for what it really is. |
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| | ==References== | | ==References== |