Us liberals have a sense of humor about ourselves, right?

[stpalm]

Well, I personally thought this was quite amusing (bascially just the bolded portion):

www.urbandictionary.com- definition- "liberal"





4. liberal
In general, have most of the good ideas, but are sadly represented on the Internet by whiny, insecure hypocrites (probably high schoolers) who complain (from the anonymosity of their computers) about not being able to criticize the US government or conservatives in general, and then completely SPAZ OUT when anyone DARES criticize their ideas. Free speech is a two-way street mm'kay?

Notice that just about all the definitions that criticize liberals have been deleted or are up for deletion. Granted, some of them were stupid/hateful, but what does that tell you about liberals being "open minded"?

Well the truth is that most liberals in real life are open-minded and cool, but on the web basically act like bizarro-Republicans and aren't actually "liberal" at all, just the political equivalent of poseurs.

In real life:
Jim: Hey Steve, do you think that gays should be allowed to marry?
Steve: Of course. Gay marriage occurs in most of Europe without "eroding family values" or any such nonsense. Why shouldn't they have the same rights as everyone else? It's the 21st century. It's time for America to evolve.

Online:
Jim: Hey Steve, do you think that gays should be allowed to marry?
Steve: OMG You must be a bigot Cristian fundie homophobe!!!! How could you even THINK of questioning gay marriage????? Why don't you go watch more NASCAR and Fox News huh Cleetus?? Huh Jimbo?? Huh Billy Bob??? STUPID BUSH-WORSHIPPING BRAINWASHED RACIST GREEDY NEOCON ILLITERATE INBRED REDNECK FUNDIE CHRISTIAN LEMMING GUN-TOTING SUV-DRIVING FASCIST REPUBLICAN WARMONGER NAZI WINGNUT DITTO-HEAD CHICKENHAWK DRONE!!!!!! WHERE'S YOUR TOLERANCE, HUH? IDIOT!!
Jim: Man, I thought those guys who call people "pinko commie faggots" were assholes. Jeez...
Steve: YOU WORSHIP THE GOP! YOU THINK THE BU$H DICTATORSHIP CAN DO NO WRONG! YOU ARE IGNORANT! NAZI! NAZI! NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!






Okay, I thought that was pretty funny. Another good one:

5. Free Republic
A racist, white power chat site operating as a conservative news discussion forum.
Conservatives use the Washington Post; true racists prefer Free Republic.
Source: Texas Cowboy, Mar 20, 2005




www.urbandictionary.com

VERY fun website. Lots of digusting humor though, be warned!

[iconoclastic cat]

1. It's either that or go on a "The Crow"-like killing rampage.

[jeff30997]

2. Bwahahahahahaaahhh!!!

It's funny because it's true ! :evilgrin:

[NMMNG]

3. LOL

I rather liked this definition though:

9. conservative
1. A person who is on the far right of the political spectrum.

2. Someone who is most likely Pro-life, government trusting, and probably believes in God by faith alone.

3. Someone who either hasn't taken a political science course, failed it, or passed it by the skim of their teeth (and maybe a $100 attached to a test.)

4. Generally, have lower IQs than Liberals (This is not an insult. People who believe in God generally have lower IQs, statistically.)

5. Someone who won't even consider any other side of the issue and consults their bible the first chance they have.

6. Have found a higher power to pursue selfishness.

7. Hate Michael Moore yet probably never even seen Fahrenheit 9/11.

8. Probably voted for Bush because he is "moral" and "unwaivering." Even though he is usually WRONG.

9. Did I mention the lower IQ portion of the population?

10. Don't know the difference between Democrat and Liberal (hint, they aren't the same thing.)

11. Members of the "Red"neck states.

12. Claim they are trying to protect the constitution yet don't even attemp to repeal the PATRIOT act that takes away most are freedoms in theory.

13. Someone who thinks they are patriot but can't understand why those damn liberals don't want their kids to pray in school.

14. Believe that Representative Theocracy is the best form of government.

15. Try to make liberal as a curse word.

16. Urban legend says that they have pink blood but upon closer inspection, they are being controlled by a bunch of nanites circulating through their body and telling them who to vote for.

17. Rigged the 2000 and 2004 election.

18. Actually thinks Bush won the 2000 and 2004 election fair and square.

19. Thinks all Arabs are evil and thinks that we should nuke Damascus.

20. Can reproduce like rabbits.
Their is nothing wrong with being conservative on a few issues, just don't be a right winged nut like George W. Bush.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=conservative

[Floogeldy]

4. That;s bullshit

You are portraying liberals as blustering reactionaries who over-react over the Internet, in the style of Rush Limbaugh and Hannity.

I do not agree.

[WilliamPitt]

5. Thus, the joke is on you

[stpalm]

6. No, I'm not.

Some guy on urbandictionary.com is and I thought it reminded me of a couple posters on DU. Come on, you have to admit- there are people like that here.

[Kraklen]

12. With good reason.

Change the question from "gay marriage" to "interracial marriage." It's not as funny, is it?

[Beware the Beast Man]

9. Umm, many do.

Have you looked around? We have as many on the lunatic fringe as FR does.

For what it's worth, I thought it was funny, hence smashing the "liberals have no sense of humor" meme.

[Shell Beau]

7. Cracks me up! LOL

[youspeakmylanguage]

8. Some of the worst people I've ever met were "liberal" college profs...

...and some of the best were liberal reporters and activists.

No joke about the professors. They were some of the most close-minded and petty authoritarians I've ever met - disagree with them about anything, especially in public, and you're doomed. Forget about a sense of humor.

Believe it or not, the conservative professors I had in the college of business were actually much easier to work with, as long as you didn't discuss politics.

Apparently, we're great people until we earn tenure. Then it all goes downhill rapidly.

[trebizond]

11. oh definitely

Very possibly the worst single human being I've ever known was a socialist professor I had (and I consider myself a socialist). Closed minded, bullying piece of shit.

[youspeakmylanguage]

13. Did he flunk you?

I was flunked twice (the only two times I flunked anything in college) in an introductory "artistic" course after I pissed off a senior professor. Of course, the grade was determined completely arbitrarily.

I don't want to go into too many details, even though it was years ago. But it almost sunk my college career in more ways thank just GPA-wise.

I also had professors that refused to speak to me after I wore my greek letters to class, even though I was a known "liberal" through my internship at the local paper.

I learned very quickly that someone's professed political "tolerance" can be less than skin deep.

[trebizond]

15. no, I was able to pretty much keep my head down,

once I got a feel for his "style". Not exactly brave, but it landed me with a mediocre mark rather than the flunking he handed out to those who had the guts to point out that most of the ideas he was pushing on us had no grounding in reality whatsoever (or the stella grades for those who handed in photocopies of his latest paper as essay answers). Your professors' behaviour towards you just sounds absolutely outrageous, though- it's bizarre how people can claim to be so concerned with human well-being in the abstract, but aren't even capable of following through with that in their own professional lives.

[youspeakmylanguage]

16. Absolute power corrupts absolutely...

...and absolute power over a classroom and the grade of ever student in it can further inflate heads already inflated like Gumby in the Macy's parage.

But anyway, I sound bitter. It was years ago and I did graduate, so all is well that ends well.

[trebizond]

10. lol! the part you highlighted is so on the money!

[Swede]

14. That's hilarious.

We have a few like that here on DU all right.