Essay:Response to CP's 'Liberal denial' article

This is an essay in response to Conservapedia's "Liberal denial" article, accessed December 27, 2008.

The "Liberal denial" article is another delusional lulz in the great Encyclopedia of Lulz that is Conservapedia. It reads too much like a paranoid manifesto explaining why liberals should be exterminated, rather than taking a realistic critical look at liberals.

The article begins with a "list of the top ten common instances of liberal denial," without any reference from where these rankings come. Here is the list, with responses after each.

The rest of CP's claims of Liberal denial reads like a paranoid delusional's manifesto. Few are sourced, and many are not based on anything rooted in reality or are attributed to denial where none exists.

That Obama is running the dirtiest campaign since Johnson more than 80% of child molesters are pornography addicts people like young mass murderers who take atheistic beliefs to their logical conclusions are not "crazy" or "insane", but are true believers the intellectual justification for Hitler's attempt to build a master Aryan race was the theory of evolution feminists censor discussion about differences between men and women, and boys and girls state run health care has lead to Islamic terrorism in Britain, and would do so in the US. obesity is a bigger problem than hunger in the Western world that a school having virtually no conservative teachers and many atheists and liberals is a liberal school that liberals attempt to intimidate and ostracize conservatives, particularly in school environments and some occupations. that liberals support taxpayer-funded abortion that girls and women in sports have debilitating ACL knee injuries at 3-4 times the rate of men, and are vulnerable to other injuries that young mass murderers fit the profile of public school-trained atheism that the numerous premature deaths of Hollywood stars are the result of Hollywood values that homeschoolers often do better than those who attend public school that culture affects politics, and people's views and lifestyles that successful democracy, both historically and logically, is the result of Protestant Christianity that Lawrence Summers was fired as President of Harvard for making a politically incorrect suggestion about women and math aptitude that Ronald Reagan's public exhortation, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall," helped cause the nearly 30-year-old Berlin Wall later be torn down that gun control increases crime (wasn't this covered above?) that reducing taxes stimulates the economy that choosing abortion over childbirth increases the risk of breast cancer (or this?) that the mainstream media is biased (which way? Liberals often accuse the media of having a Conservative slant) that privately-run transport is more efficient than government-run transport that universal health care is inferior medical care that unions interfere with employment opportunities that liberal leaders engage in shocking wrongdoing, hypocrisy, and abuse of power that ideas do matter, and can cause great harm, including liberal falsehoods that Islamic extremism is a threat to the Western civilization that banning same-sex marriage is analogous to banning polygamy that aggressive interrogation is often the only way to obtain answers from terrorists how the liberal ideology is pushed on unsuspecting others, particularly youngsters that free trade strengthens global democracies that a child in a mother's womb has rights established by the Constitution that a vote for (yea) or a vote against (nea) is an absolute position that you can be held accountable for the statements uttered that climate forecasts 50 years from now are as inaccurate as 15 days from now that politicians that proclaim 'Change' actually do not break with policies of the past that removing Saddam Hussein from power was a good thing. that eating meat and dairy is important for physical and mental health. that marijuana use has no lasting psychological effects. that illegal immigrants contribute to crime and poverty in the towns and cities they occupy. that English will cease being the language of the United States in 20 years unless it is protected as the official language (and that this would be a loss if it happened). that President Bush didn't cause Hurricane Katrina. that President Clinton was responsible for Rwanda inaction. that the Democratic party discriminates against African-Americans. that restricting free speech by the Fairness Doctrine is actually not fair nor democratic. that we can drill oil our way out of high gas prices. that we can't replace our dependence on oil with green technologies, when in fact we need both oil and green technologies to solve our energy crisis. that opposing same-sex marriage is justified and point to decriminalized interracial marriage bans as proof. that they are intolerant of opposing viewpoints and then try to stifle further discussion. (One need only look at how Andy and his kin deal with such on CP) that socialism and liberalism have the same political agenda. that God should have a place in government that modern drilling methods result in minimal environmental impact, even if they were implemented in uninhabited lands such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that companies like Exxon should pay billions of dollars in damages to the general public, in addition to the money they spend to clean up industrial accidents and to recompense those directly affected that selective logging keeps forests healthier by reducing the risk of wildfire that high food prices are not caused by ethanol production, but rather by the million acres of crop- and pastureland that have been taken out of production in the interest of wildlife conservation. that the life of a human is more important than the life of an animal or plant. that modern technology can make coal clean (There's a spill in Tennessee CP should look at) that a fence is the most effective and ultimately, the most peaceful way to protect our large border from illegal immigrants trying to get in that socially dangerous people exhibit a well-documented pattern of reading habits that heavy metal music is generally anti-Christian and promotes themes such as drugs, sex and Satan worship.

So, there you go. Delusions of CP easily refuted, and far too many to even bother with handling. But they're still good for a laugh or five thousand.