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Doesn't this entire article fall apart at point #1? Mr. Hawkins is making blanket statements and classifying people and their beliefs in his column, sure sounds Open Minded to me.
"It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so." -- Ronald Reagan
”You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.” -- Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
1) Being Open Minded: To a liberal, this has nothing at all to do with seriously considering other people's ideas. To the contrary, liberals define being "open-minded" as agreeing with them. What could be more close-minded than assuming that not only are you right, but that you don't even need to consider another...
Libs, on the other hand, rarely seek out alternative points of view, and on the rare occasions they do, generally either offer only insults or sneering dismissals in rebuttal.
Thanks Capt-Call!!
by close minded gay activists that seek to damage it's business simply over a disagreement about what constitutes marriage ?
"As an open minded liberal should you not call for the end of persecution of Chjick- fil-a$
by close minded gay activists that seek to damage it's business simply over a disagreement about what constitutes marriage ? "
The New York Ties did in an editorial today and I agree with them
to call for repeated inspections and having inspectors find all sorts of nitpicks to deny approvals,there's all sorts of ways a dishonest pol can block a business.Your permit application might get "lost",or keep fining it's way to the bottom of the queue.
Add up all the many ways of hindering and interference,and it becomes too costly to start your business,if you can get it open at all.
No laws need be changed to do any of this.
Doesn't this entire article fall apart at point #1? Not at all. You just validated his point with your post.You are not open minded enough to acknowledge his argument in any sort of cogent way