Study: Online, liberals far less tolerant than normal people

[woolfe9999]

The article says, among other things, that a higher percentage of liberals using social networking sites have blocked other users or content. Do we know how much political spam enters social networking sites from the right, left, and libertarians? For example, how much birther spam has found its way into social networking? It seems to me that question must first be answered before one can determine if this datum in any way relates to the relative tolerance of one group versus another.

 

[bfdd]

I have yet to be defriended or ignored by a person on Facebook who is overly religious and I regularly post things on their updates which contain things like "OH THANK GOD XXX HAS HAPPENED TO ME" when it is usually their hard work or the hard work of others that did it. I fucking hate when people don't give credit where credit is due or take responsibility for their actions. IMO thanking God for something good you did is a sure fire sign that you're an irresponsible dick.

 

[blankslate]

Maybe Liberals are just too scared of confrontation so they are more likely to block the pages of people who disagree with them?

It depends on how you spin the data.

Other than the ignore option being used for SNSes it seems that people on opposite sides of the spectrum behave pretty much the same.

 

[woolfe9999]

I have yet to be defriended or ignored by a person on Facebook who is overly religious and I regularly post things on their updates which contain things like "OH THANK GOD XXX HAS HAPPENED TO ME" when it is usually their hard work or the hard work of others that did it. I fucking hate when people don't give credit where credit is due or take responsibility for their actions. IMO thanking God for something good you did is a sure fire sign that you're an irresponsible dick.

Out of curiosity, why do you constantly cite your personal experiences as evidence to prove a broader point?

Do you think the article linked by the OP provides enough data to support the conclusion that the OP has encapsulated in his thread title?

 

[woolfe9999]

OK people aren't getting the point. Let's illustrate with a simple thought experiment.

Two people who disagree on every issue are locked in a room. They are allowed to talk at or to each other freely. For the sake of the experiment, let's say that when either chooses to cover his ears while the other speaks, that is evidence of that person's "intolerance."

Person A speaks for 60 minutes, during which person B covers his ears 10 times. Person B speaks for 15 minutes, during which Person A covers his ears 7 times. Which person is more intolerant?

The problem here is that we only know how many times each covered his ears. We don't know how much each was talked at by the other.

- wolf

 

[JSt0rm]

but liberals have more reasons to cover their ears. When someone begins to claim "the world is 10,000 years old and that evolution is a trick of the devil" are you supposed to listen to this?

 

[BoberFett]

Amazing Booberfet. For a post that simply implied that you are a confrontational, aggressive poster, you certainly made a great case that you are, indeed, NOT and that you would NEVER incite someone to be annoyed with your posting.

I am sorry I ever doubted you. It is obvious that you speak to some higher authority on everything and therefore are right no matter what tongues you use to relate it with later.

I am so sorry I said that you are a "bible thumper". I am even more ashamed I can't find it on my thread! I must have deleted it before posting this or something.

Wow you are incredible.

Oh, you want to continue to prove my point?

You said originally that there's no way I would post something reasoned, inferring that I MUST have posted something to anger that poor sensitive liberal teacher, meaning I posted something "conservative" aka "bible-thumping".

 

[Paul98]

If I was friends with someone who kept on spouting off racist, ignorant, foxnews republican BS, I would de-friend them also. Who really wants to read that crap?

Just as if someone posts something stupid or ignorant, doesn't matter where it comes from I try to correct or inform them. You can have your own opinions, but facts and logic aren't the same thing as an opinion.

 

[BoberFett]

Which posters here brag about their ignore lists in their sigs?

Hint: From what I've seen it's not "conservatives."

 

[woolfe9999]

but liberals have more reasons to cover their ears. When someone begins to claim "the world is 10,000 years old and that evolution is a trick of the devil" are you supposed to listen to this?

That is an entirely different issue than the one I raise. You're essentially saying that conservative ideas are worthy of less tolerance than liberal ones. I'm not even going there. I'm just making the most basic point here - we can't conclude that liberals are more intolerant because they block more posters and messages on Facebook because we don't know how often each side is spamming the other with whatever their message happens to be.

If I spam you 100 times and you block me 3 times that doesn't make you more intolerant because you spammed me once and I blocked you once.

 

[woolfe9999]

Which posters here brag about their ignore lists in their sigs?

Hint: From what I've seen it's not "conservatives."

Who besides Craig? One poster is a thin reed to hang an argument on.

 

[Spikesoldier]

Which posters here brag about their ignore lists in their sigs?

Hint: From what I've seen it's not "conservatives."

spot on

 

[monovillage]

I saw this and read it, it pretty much follows my own experience on the net. Imagine my amusement when I saw it was posted and so many of the intolerant lefty usual suspects here at ATP&N did their best to prove it beyond any doubt. Damn, I love you folks.

 

[Jaskalas]

To a liberal, apparently trying to even begin a dialogue about one of their sacred cows is an attack and will provoke a severe backlash.

OH!!! Sort of like how we hate and want to ban / remove HUMAN RIGHTS from X if we don't PAY for Y?

 

[EXman]

It's like a saaaaaaaww na in here!

 

[Ausm]

I saw this and read it, it pretty much follows my own experience on the net. Imagine my amusement when I saw it was posted and so many of the intolerant lefty usual suspects here at ATP&N did their best to prove it beyond any doubt. Damn, I love you folks.

You consider yourself tolerant?? LMFAO

 

[cybrsage]

IMO thanking God for something good you did is a sure fire sign that you're an irresponsible dick.

???

 

[monovillage]

You consider yourself tolerant?? LMFAO

Compared to you i'm, the epitome of tolerance, the Gandhi of non-violence, the Mother Teresa of kindness and charity, but that's only in comparison to you and a few other of the usual suspects.

 

[0roo0roo]

gawker commenting system where a clique of lefties police the system kind of is standard on many lefty sites you don't even show up unless you "audition", aka suck up and pass ideological purity... its hilarious

 

[sandorski]

gawker commenting system where a clique of lefties police the system kind of is standard on many lefty sites you don't even show up unless you "audition", aka suck up and pass ideological purity... its hilarious

It's very easy to get Banned on certain websites. Try posting as a Liberal on many Conservative sites and you'll be shown the door pretty quick.

 

[Jhhnn]

I tolerate fools rather lightly in real life, but they seem to become more offensively obtuse online, when they take themselves seriously, take on their personas of faith based bullshit & identity politics, regurgitate right wing talking points as if they were actually having some sort of original thought... as if they don't embrace glaring contradictions as fact...

I have no ignore list, btw.

 

[bfdd]

Out of curiosity, why do you constantly cite your personal experiences as evidence to prove a broader point?

Do you think the article linked by the OP provides enough data to support the conclusion that the OP has encapsulated in his thread title?

I saw some other people make comments on it, I thought I'd share. The last part is just an opinion blurb I added out. Then the final point, I have posted facts before to back up my points and most the time the people you are sharing with care not and ignore it. Haven't you noticed the easiest way to get acknowledged on this forum is to make idiotic emotional posts? Look at HAL ffs. The dude clearly is a troll, he clearly breaks the rules on a daily basis, but EVERYONE gives him attention because he's an emotional idiot who posts nothing but personal anecdotes and opinion.

???

You did it, not God. Free will and all that shit. If you can't accept responsibility for your good actions, how can anyone expect you to accept responsibility for your bad actions? Or is that just Satan?

 

[Train]

OH!!! Sort of like how we hate and want to ban / remove HUMAN RIGHTS from X if we don't PAY for Y?

bingo.

 

[Rangoric]

Wait a sec, the person who is walking away from the argument, is the intolerant one, while the person yelling is the tolerant one?

So if I get punched in the face, I'm the violent one?

I'd prefer to think of ignoring an intolerant person as being tolerant. Why you ask? because by ignoring them, I'm not causing them any trouble, especially out and about in the world wide web. Hell they likely won't even notice. Instead if I stand there yelling at them that they are wrong? Sounds pretty intolerant.

 

[LumbergTech]

Out of curiosity, why do you constantly cite your personal experiences as evidence to prove a broader point?

Do you think the article linked by the OP provides enough data to support the conclusion that the OP has encapsulated in his thread title?

As opposed to the chronic googling that goes on from people who don't even know what they are talking about? At least he does use actual experiences of his own instead of spending short periods of time copying others work to try to grow his epeen.

Not disagreeing with your point about anecdotal evidence, but its just as bad with people who provide tons of "evidence".