Liberal denial

Liberal denial is the tendency of liberals to go into "denial mode" and conceal, deny or censor the truth for ideological reasons. A list of the top ten common instances of liberal denial are the following:

1. liberals deny they are liberal, and that most of the media are liberal
2. Hollywood values, professor values and general liberal values have consequences for those who believe in them, and also for innocent victims
3. the intellectual justification for Hitler's attempt to build a master Aryan race was the theory of evolution
4. liberals have censored prayer in public school
5. a woman significantly reduces her risk of breast cancer by having children rather than abortions
6. most promiscuous people carry sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and those STDs cause infertility
7. the strident promoters of evolution generally have weaker credentials than advocates of intelligent design
8. college faculties at nearly every school are completely dominated by liberals, and have virtually no conservatives
9. homosexuality shortens lifespan for a variety of reasons
10. more than 80% of child molesters are pornography addicts
11. reducing the number of guns, which are primarily defensive weapons, results in an increase in crime

More generally, liberals also deny:

1. feminists censor discussion about differences between men and women, and boys and girls
2. obesity is a bigger problem than hunger
3. that a school having virtually no conservative teachers and many atheists and liberals is a liberal school
4. that liberals attempt to intimidate and ostracize conservatives, particularly in school environments and some occupations.
5. that liberals support taxpayer-funded abortion
6. that girls and women in sports have debilitating ACL knee injuries at 3-4 times the rate of men, and are vulnerable to other injuries
7. that young mass murderers fit the profile of public school-trained atheism
8. that the numerous premature deaths of Hollywood stars are the result of Hollywood values
9. that homeschoolers often do better than those who attend public school
10. that culture affects politics, and people's views and lifestyles
11. that successful democracy, both historically and logically, is the result of Protestant Christianity
12. that Lawrence Summers was fired as President of Harvard for making a politically incorrect suggestion about women and math aptitude
13. that Ronald Reagan's public exhortation, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall," helped cause the nearly 30-year-old Berlin Wall later be torn down
14. that gun control increases crime
15. that reducing taxes stimulates the economy
16. that choosing abortion over childbirth increases the risk of breast cancer
17. that the mainstream media is biased
18. that privately-run transport is more efficient than government-run transport
19. that public health care is inferior medical care
20. that unions interfere with employment opportunities
21. that liberal leaders engage in shocking wrongdoing, hypocrisy, and abuse of power
22. that ideas do matter, and can cause great harm, including liberal falsehoods
23. that Islamic extremism is a threat to the Western civilization
24. that banning same-sex marriage is analogous to banning polygamy
25. that aggressive interrogation is often the only way to obtain answers from terrorists
26. how the liberal ideology is pushed on unsuspecting others, particularly youngsters

Often liberals refuse to admit that they are liberals, in the hope of appearing more reasonable. Hillary Clinton refused to admit in a presidential debate in 2007 that she is a liberal. Similarly, Michael Dukakis refused for a while to admit that he was a liberal during the 1988 presidential campaign. Only out of desperation did Dukakis admit that he was a liberal, and even then he admitted only that was a liberal like President Harry Truman, who served 40 years earlier.