Politics is downstream from culture, as Andrew Breitbart once said.

  • SJ0@lemmy.fbxl.net
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    1 year ago

    Huh. You feel that way about orthodox Jews and Chinese Confucians, huh?

    I probably wouldn’t say something like that about those conservative groups, but I guess I should really just be more open minded about such things.

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      1 year ago

      Have you ever read Confucius? He’s the very definition of blinkered conservatism. The guy thought the first emperors were morally pure.

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        1 year ago

        Absolutely, extremely conservative, and it predates Christianity by hundreds of years. But are we going to say they fear and hate everything? I have a sneaking suspicion that the statement was only intended to be referring to White American religious conservatives. The world is a big big place. Broad generalizations apply broadly and can have connotations that aren’t intended.