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Just why are "liberals" so smug and so ignorant?

Posted by Morrissey <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Morrissey' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 19, 2025, 3:28 pm

After an hour of slinging off at Edward Snowden, and vapouring about William and Kate, there was this dispiriting but revealing little exchange on Radio New Zealand's "liberal" talk show, The Panel, 16 July 2013...

LINDA CLARK: Here I am, an intelligent woman, and yet I know EVERYTHING about the Kardashians and NOTHING about Syria!

TONY DOE: You’re going to the wrong sites. You should go to the Atlantic website. That’s really good.

LINDA CLARK: Well, I get the New Yorker in hard copy at home, and that’s my long read.

https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/ha-ha-ha-ha-they-cant-get-rid-of-him.html

Rich bastards

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 19, 2025, 7:39 pm, in reply to "Just why are "liberals" so smug and so ignorant?"

They can afford it.

The last working-class hero in England.

Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021

Overton window…

Posted by Shyaku <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Shyaku' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 20, 2025, 5:31 am, in reply to "Just why are "liberals" so smug and so ignorant?"

Chomsky’s “spectrum of permissible opinion”: Being smug is allowed, being informed is not.

- Shyaku

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