Which Group Is More Intolerant ? Liberals Or Conservatives?

Question

Generally speaking, which group seems to be the most negative and hateful in your eyes ?

Answer 1

Sorry, I couldn't hear your question oven the liberal hatemongering going on!

Answer 2

Depends on who you ask. Liberals are going to say conservatives are more intolerant. Conservatives are going to say liberals are more intolerant.
Take some of the answers you've already gotten. Nearly ALL of the conservatives say the liberals are intolerant, and then they sling insults at them.
On the other hand, the liberals' answers are even worse.
So because I'm a conservative, I hate everyone? I think not. I don't hate anyone, whether they're black, white, gay, straight, born in America or not, Christian, atheist, Wiccan, WHATEVER. I don't CARE.

So to answer your question, both contain intolerant people. I think conservatives and liberals are on even ground with that one.

Answer 3

Is this a trick question? A true conservative-such as a libertarian-doesn't care what you do as long as the gvt stays out. A true liberal wants the federal government to do everything and judges everyone by their standards. Now if we go by the media's interpretation of what a liberal or conservative are then the conservatives are obviously the winners here. They have a problem with EVERYONE! They don't like gays, black people, democrats, women who make their own choices, mexicans, Darwin, etc, etc......

Answer 4

Read each parties charter. Look at the history of racism, sexism, weapon proliferation, and speech by both parties.
This question is obviously asked by a liberal trying to be ironic.

Here's an extreme example.
There are a lot of liberals out there who want to open talks with radical islamic fundamentalists - understand their motivations - and develop a relationship with those guys in an effort to understand their culture and encourage peace amonst men.

The flip side - their equally far removed right-leaning counterpart, advises nuclear strikes as the obvious solution.

Let's not kid ourselves intelligent liberals understand conservatives and recognize that these conservatives are an integral part of the balance within our universe.

How pu&&y-a&& liberal is that statement?
Yet it is so true.


Also I like Mandi's answer - how I wish the classic conservative party (like the goldwater fiction) actually existed.

Answer 5

Both sides have some extremely intolerant people and both sides have some very loving people. I guess it depends on which groups within those groups are being analyzed.

Answer 6

Conservatives seem to have more people to hate. They don't support Romney because he Mormon. They hate gays and liberals. They don't support non-Christians. They dislike legal and illegal immigrants. They hate anyone who disagrees with them. Nonetheless, there's plenty of hatred on both sides. Our country has become astonishingly polarized under President Bush. Conservatives on this site even seem to hate the American people who voted Democrat last November.

Answer 7

Conservatives are the most intolerant. They constantly bring up the past. But never seem to get around to holding there own party members that make bad decisions accountable.

I.E. Mark Foley, GW Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Richard Nixon, and many others.

Answer 8

One of the funny things about Conservatives is that they consistently fail to call Democrats as Democrats, even if they are trying their hardest. I respect that though.

Answer 9

they are both in their own ways. if you ask a conservative, a liberal is soo intolerant. if you ask a liberal, a conservative is by far more intolerant. i think that bias can explain a lot...

Answer 10

Well...

One group (Conservative) says: "government should strive to leave us alone whenever possible."

The other group (Liberal) says: "government should strive to improve our lives whenever possible."

Now which of these two do you think is more likely to be intolerant of the status quo?

Edit:
Oh no! ...Here come the dreaded liberal's thumbs downs! I was hoping we could hide from them, but they're too damned smart for us! What's a neo-con to do these days? Drat!

Answer 11

Read "CONSERVATIVES WITHOUT CONSCIENCE"

John Dean takes a sobering look at how radical elements are destroying the Republican Party along with the very foundations of American democracy

John Dean's last New York Times bestseller, Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, offered the former White House insider's unique and telling perspective on George W. Bush's presidency. Once again,

Dean employs his distinctive knowledge and understanding of Washington politics and process to examine the conservative movement's current inner circle of radical Republican leaders—from Capitol Hill to Pennsylvania Avenue to K Street and beyond. In Conservatives Without Conscience, Dean not only highlights specific right-wing-driven GOP policies but also probes the conservative mind-set, identifying recurring qualities such as the unbridled viciousness toward those daring to disagree with them, as well as the big business favoritism that costs taxpayers billions. Dean identifies specific examples of how court packing is seeking to form a judiciary that is activist by its very nature, how religious piety is producing politics run amok, and how concealed indifference to the founding principles of liberty and equality is pushing America further and further from its constitutional foundations.

By the end, Dean paints a vivid picture of what's happening at the top levels of the Republican Party, a noble political party corrupted by its current leaders who cloak their actions in moral superiority while packaging their programs as blatant propaganda. Dean, certainly no alarmist, finds disturbing signs that current right-wing authoritarian thinking, when conflated with the dominating personalities of the conservative leadership could take the United States toward its own version of fascism.

"Dean looks at Republican-controlled Washington and sees a bullying, manipulative, prejudiced leadership edging the country toward a dark era."
—Edmonton Journal