On Liberal Contempt Toward Conservatives

Tiassa said:
The word "rhetoric" often refers, in American parlance, to the specific words someone speaks, e.g., "violent", "revolutionary", or "extremist" rhetoric. But rhetoric itself is an old concept referring to something more general. The most common contemporary treatment of the word considers specific forms and manners of rhetoric.

Meanwhile, Arthur appears to not recognize a rhetorical proposition. But there might be a reason for this.

II. Literalism

While so many people speak colloquially, even in "official" circumstances, there seems to be a growing demand to receive those words "literally". I put the word "literally" in quotes because I don't find that brand of literalism particularly reliable about the definitions that asserts. I mean, for all the times my mother said something or another about wringing our necks, neither my brother nor I ever actually feared she would try to throttle us. We understood, even aged in single-digits, the difference between the literal and figurative.

Most people still do, but there is a strange, pervading demand in our public discourse that people set aside their comprehension and perceive things according to an unnaturally strict literalism that is also tremendously faulty in its assessments.[/indent]
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Unfortuntely, conservatives/Republicans/Tea Partiers et al are very selective in their use of literalism. For example, the shooting of Congresswoman Gifford, Arthur and his ilk were the first to decry taking the words of their leaders literally.

When one must sacrifice honesty in the name of the cause (e.g. Tea Party/Republican theology), there is something very wrong with the cause. When on can see the splinter in the eye of your neighbor and fail to see the log in your own eye, there is a problem...and so it is with this thing called conservatism in American society.
 
joepistole said:
Unfortuntely, conservatives/Republicans/Tea Partiers et al are very selective in their use of literalism. For example, the shooting of Congresswoman Gifford, Arthur and his ilk were the first to decry taking the words of their leaders literally.
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Total BS.

Do you not know what taking something literally means?

No Republican/Tea Partier said to shoot Giffords.

Arthur
 
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