Ah, the "Progressive Left"

[Louis VI the Fat]

The reaction by Danny Alexander, the 'ginger' Chief Secretary to the Treasury is in:

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[Beskar]

This topic is lost on me.

Especially the part where people actually cared about Harriet Harman other than to mock her stupidity in comments and actions.

[Fragony]

Ginger rodent rofl sorry I have a weak spot for insults. But yeah it's pretty bad and illustrates how one-sided these people are. The left is an evil stepmother that really hates your guts for messing up her illusion of a perfect family, and boy can she get vicious.

[Husar]

The reaction by Danny Alexander, the 'ginger' Chief Secretary to the Treasury is in:

That was only funny up to the part where he said he considered suicide...

[HoreTore]

That was only funny up to the part where he said he considered suicide...

One less ginger in the world; the world is happy.

[Fragony]

The reaction by Danny Alexander, the 'ginger' Chief Secretary to the Treasury is in:

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Attitude is key https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JhY7176qJs

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Didn't Red Ed, the new Labour leader call for a "grown up political debate" in response to his nickname? And yet Labour et al still throw around the term "ConDem nation" like there's no tomorrow. What can you expect from the Labour hypocrisy? It's pretty much all they have left as a political party though, knuckle dragging and mud slinging.

Then again, that old Labour hero Nye Bevan once refer to the Tories as " lower than vermin" so the old "progressive" party has a fine tradition of insults and slurs.

Was it Daniel Hannen who recently wrote in the Guardian that the hatred of the "Progressive" Left was decidedly unprogreesive? Some of the comments he got were quite extraordinary. His conclusion was that the Left (rather like extreme religious sects) is a magnet for misanphropes who want to feel good about hating people.

I'll let you in on a little secret, the real reason I'm Right-Wing is I just can't get behind the hate-mo ngering of the Left.

I have only one thing to say to this:

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If all you have offer is trolling verging on Racism I'll thank you to take a running jump out of my topic.

[Fragony]

I'll let you in on a little secret, the real reason I'm Right-Wing is I just can't get behind the hate-mo ngering of the Left.

I can relate, these self-congratulating self-appointed morally superior gutmenschen are vicious like only females can be. If you tried explaining to her that it's nasty she won't be able to understand, she feels she has the right because she feels superior. Kinda funny how they become what they say they are against, the ubermensch.

[Furunculus]

or for another:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...m-of-tory-cuts

There are lots of inadequates in this world who, dimly aware of their own failings, attempt to shield themselves and their social circle from this truth by donning the mantle of a cause, usually one deemed universally to be a 'good' thing. By stridently adopting the arguments of the 'good' cause they hope to banish these blemishes from self and circle.

Young left-wing firebrands are almost a case study in this phenomenon, as being socially 'nice' to people is the ultimate 'good' cause and thus unconsciously or otherwise is perceived as the most potent social camouflage.

Our refusal to give credence to their ideas by reflecting the same hatred as they hold for us only makes that hatred more visceral.

[Banquo's Ghost]

Oh dear.

For the sake of my newly restored equanimity chaps, let's address the core of Philipvs' opening post rather than post mindless insults aimed at whichever group one finds risible.

Thank you kindly.

[Furunculus]

I'll let you in on a little secret, the real reason I'm Right-Wing is I just can't get behind the hate-mo ngering of the Left.

so very true:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...bes-europhiles

[HoreTore]

If all you have offer is trolling verging on Racism I'll thank you to take a running jump out of my topic.

This comment(along with much else in this thread) is so surreal it's bordering on the paranormal. Can someone verify that Philipvs hasn't been abducted by an alien probe-patrol and replaced by an impersonator?



Seriously, we all have the need from time to call someone a head. I don't think anyone should care that strong language apparently offends weak, christian hearts.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

This comment(along with much else in this thread) is so surreal it's bordering on the paranormal. Can someone verify that Philipvs hasn't been abducted by an alien probe-patrol and replaced by an impersonator?

The prejudice against Red-haired people is an anti-Celtic racial slur going back to the Romans and more recently employed by the English against the Irish. Ginger jokes are basically racist, they poke fun at a charactaristic which is a racial marker, just like comments about Africans being "thicklipped" - even Shakespeare saw that one as racist.

Seriously, we all have the need from time to call someone a head. I don't think anyone should care that strong language apparently offends weak, christian hearts.

Speak for yourself. Funnilly enough someone called me a "Tory head on election night because I voted for our local (Tory) MP rather than the Lib-Dem incomer.

Your comments about ginger people are something I am just as sick of as comments against anyone not left-of-centre, or anyone not an atheist.

You could use a racial slur against a black person.

You couldn't get away with calling a left-winger evil.

You can't get away with pointing out Hitler and his ideaology were atheistic (when the Pope did this one the New Atheists screamed bloody murder, despite them mounting a months-long hate campaign against him in exactly that vein.)

I abhor double-standards and hypocricy.

[HoreTore]

I abhor double-standards and hypocricy.

Quoted for extreme hilarity!

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

Quoted for extreme hilarity!

I dare you to substantiate that.