{"id":30773,"date":"2015-04-07T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30773"},"modified":"2018-09-18T15:35:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T19:35:54","slug":"qotd-top-ten-reasons-not-to-be-a-rightist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/04\/07\/qotd-top-ten-reasons-not-to-be-a-rightist\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Top ten reasons not to be a rightist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Pornography. The complete absence of evidence that exposure to sexually-explicit material is harmful to children or anyone else doesn\u2019t stop conservatives from advocating massive censorship.<\/li>\n
  2. Drugs. We found out that Prohibition was a bad idea back in the 1930s \u2014 all it did was create a huge and virulent criminal class, erode respect for the law, and corrupt our politics. Some people never learn.<\/li>\n
  3. Creationism. I don\u2019t know who I find more revolting, the drooling morons who actally believe creationism or the intelligent panderers who know better but provide them with political cover for their religious-fundamentalist agenda in return for votes.<\/li>\n
  4. Abortion. The conservatives\u2019 looney-toon religious need to believe that a fertilized gamete is morally equivalent to a human being has done the other half of making a reasoned debate on abortion nigh-impossible.<\/li>\n
  5. Racism. I haven\u2019t forgiven the Right for segregation, Jim Crow laws, and lynching blacks. And I never will.<\/li>\n
  6. Sexism. Way too much conservative thought still reads like an apologia for keeping women barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen.<\/li>\n
  7. Anti-science. Stem cells, therapeutic cloning \u2014 it doesn\u2019t matter how many more diabetes, cancer and AIDS patients have to die to protect the anti-abortion movement\u2019s ideological flanks. Knowledge \u2014 who needs it? Conservatives would try suppressing astronomy if the telescope had just been invented.<\/li>\n
  8. Family values. Conservatives are so desperate to reassert the repressive `normalcy\u2019 they think existed in Grand-dad\u2019s time that they pretend we can undo the effects of the automobile, television, the Pill, and the Internet.<\/li>\n
  9. Ronald Wilson Reagan. A B-movie actor who thought ketchup was a vegetable. His grip on reality was so dangerously weak that the Alzheimer\u2019s made no perceptible difference. Conservatives worship him.<\/li>\n
  10. Conservatives, by and large, are villains.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Eric S. Raymond, “Top Ten Reasons I’m Neither a Liberal Nor a Conservative”, Armed and Dangerous<\/em><\/a>, 2004-09-19.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Pornography. The complete absence of evidence that exposure to sexually-explicit material is harmful to children or anyone else doesn\u2019t stop conservatives from advocating massive censorship. Drugs. We found out that Prohibition was a bad idea back in the 1930s \u2014 all it did was create a huge and virulent criminal class, erode respect for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41,13],"tags":[601,431,119,1235,408,99,1010],"class_list":["post-30773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-abortion","tag-conservatism","tag-drugs","tag-esr","tag-pornography","tag-racism","tag-ronaldreagan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-80l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30774,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30773\/revisions\/30774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}