I thought this article was interesting which searched the 18 biggest Lefty blogs, and 22 biggest Righty blogs for George Carlin's infamous "7 dirty words." It found, not surprisingly I might add, the Liberal blogs used profanity more than the Conservative ones at a ratio of 18 to 1. I wanted to hear why this was true from some liberals, so I went to the Fark.com comment forum related to the linked article to see how they responded. Here are a few of the ones that helped me understand why Liberals need to cuss about politics:
2007-03-01 09:21:38 PM1rtfarm
Maybe because it's hard to curse when you're diddling little boys?
Alright, a Foley scandal reference!
2007-03-01 11:40:11 PMrlbigfish
I know it's been said in one way or another...but the Left's got more of a reason to be pissed off. It has to do with them wanting the freedoms that the Right is taking away.
Because Conservative ideology is about restricting the rights of the individual and increases the role of the government.
2007-03-02 06:01:07 AMRunningjoke
Democrats = Rude emotional non-thinking cry babies
Republicans = Polite cold calculating callous baby killers
Those republicans are always killing babies!
2007-03-02 06:57:59 AMschrodingers cat
Most self respecting Christian conservatives would never do anything as undignified as - goodness - swearing in public, (and certainly not on a static IP address) as they much prefer the cloak of darkness before putting on their wife beaters to go score some meth and an underage gay prostitute just to build up enough spiritual guilt and indignation to stomach legislating morality to us Heathens that would be living in a cave, fornicating with sheep, if not, for the grace of God, go'eth they.
Alright.
2007-03-02 07:00:01 AMa large angry dinosaur
Yeah you know what this headline says to me? That rightwingers are almost entirely middle aged, middle upper class squares with a serious case of stickarse. Leftists are the movers and the changers, the people with opinions instead of soundbites.Even if you buy none of that, swearing is cool and I'm proud that people who share my views use it. If it keeps idiots from reading the blog in mortal terror that they might be offended that's only good news to me.There are more important problems in the world than people getting offended and the sooner Bible beaters understand this, the better. In fact, people getting offended does not even register on my Care-O-Meter these days.
Basically it is cool to swear. Leftists are the movers and the changers. I don't even know what that means. One post made a lot of sense, though:
2007-03-02 07:21:43 AMPoint02GPA
I bet it has something to do with their upbringing.
I bet you are correct. Our Dads may have swore around us but we got our asses kicked if we trotted around in public cussing up a storm.
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Well done, TC. This could open the door to more investigative reporting on BMBS.
Good job man. This was brilliant.
Wow, you took quite a lot of time on this one. Good stuff. It's always been one of those issues that I could never pinpoint, but now that I think about it, it really is pretty obvious.
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