Why do some conservatives on Y/A do this?

Question

What is this? Well it's blocking me before I've ever had any interaction with them on any questions, you know sometimes I'm a genuine smart alek and other times I come armed with facts, links, and am direct in my actions, that said I am NOWHERE near as good at the debate process as others, Chi Guy comes to mind (and he's not even a liberal from what I can tell he'll argue against ANY BS intelligently and thoughtfully with an articulate response) why would someone block me without knowing the content of my contribution, sometimes I jest, sometimes I try to swat you for being an idiot, and sometimes I give the best answer I can give but to be blocked without, but still I'm normally not very offensive (at least by the stanadards I see upheld here mrfeelsgreat and John B come to mind) so wy would you block someone from the onset, just wondering, oh you might ask how do I know they are conservatives, well the questions are good indicators

So far everyone is making sense GOOD

Waycar you show yourself for what you are, wether you agree or not isn't the point, he's well thought out, provides stats or links and is almost always level headed and NON offensive, I won't "block" you but do us all a favor and stick to stupid questions, those are about your level

Thanks for proving to the board yet again what an obnoxious little brain dead jerk you areJohn B

Answer 1

It's actually a badge of honor. It means they fear that what you are going to say is going to be valid. They aren't looking for real answers...only answers that agree with their already stated position.

Trolls fear any real debate.

Answer 2

Honest and truly I'm like probably over 50% of registered voters."Middle of the Road" That's what makes me angry,
There was a time when you had left-wing Republicans and
Democrates, and visa versa. Now, they either want to throw us into one category or the other. "Hell-NO" I guess now, at
least from what I read on here, if ya Rep. then ya conservative
If ya a Dem. then ya got to be liberal. Surely you people got more brains than that! Each side thinks that THEY have the answer. It happens to go a lot deeper than that. I have some conservative views and also have some liberal views. I refuse to have a Big L or C stamped on my forehead. That the way you people on the whole are acting. It just doesn't work like that. Now, Have a Great Tomorrow!

Answer 3

Because there is a tendency in this culture for people to believe that they can create reality by manipulating symbols. You will note that these people passing themselves off as "conservatives" believe that if they say something is true, then it's true--this is the manipulation of symbol in the form of language.

This is the reason for their unnerving disinterest in fact.

They specialize in the logical fallacy of addressing comments "to the man"--in the "ad hominem" fallacy. Example: Gore says the planet is warming. Gore is an idiot. Therefore, the planet is not warming, despite the fact that that liberal, pinko publication, National Geographic, reports that throughout the world, water that has existed in the form of glaciers for tens of thousands of years is now melting.

Blocking you--as Limbaugh blocks all opposing voices--is another symbolic manipulation.

From "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," by William L. Shirer (1960):

Hitler, as he moved into the position of propaganda guru for the German Workers' Party, circa 1920, came to certain realizations about the minds of the people he was trying to conscript:

"The first signs of his peculiar genius began to appear and make themselves felt. What the masses needed, he thought, were not only ideas--a few simple ideas, that is, that he could ceaselessly hammer through their skulls--but symbols that would win their faith, pageantry and color that would arouse them and acts of violence and terror, which, if successful, would attract adherents (were not most Germans drawn to the strong?) and give them a sense of power over the weak." p. 42.

Answer 4

I don't block. I don't see the point. I don't see the harm in others opinions and sometimes it says more then the answerer knows about himself. i.e. Micheal Moores fat *** makes me sicko, or Clinton is Stupid. are the total response I got on some of my questions. Is that really an intelligent answer? I notice Religious people block a lot. These folks seem even more prone to be afraid to listen to other opions or facts, then a conservative, although alot of them are one in the same.

Answer 5

Couldn't tell ya. I'm a conservative and I don't block anyone, I may not agree with them and quite honestly hate some of the propoganda some members of this board try to pass off. But I also feel it would hypocritical of me to block someone cause I do live in America and they have a right to say it. I feel blocking what they say would put me in the same boat as book burners.

Answer 6

It happens on BOTH sides. People who do not want to hear arguments from the other side will block. You shouldn't think it's just conservatives doing it because I know for a fact it's not. Liberals do it all the time. It has nothing to do with whether you're liberal or conservative. That's just the way people are sometimes.

Answer 7

Personal experience: I blocked a "troll" who would look up my questions and answers, and mine alone, and give horrible, nasty, "answers" which consisted of name-calling, personal taunts, and absolutely NO intelligent reasons for his responses. If I answered a question, he would follow with his answer to the question--which was always just a remark to, or about, me! I have no idea of why he "picked" me for his special attention, but I finally kept him from following me around Y!A by blocking.

Otherwise, I enjoy reading almost everything others write; sometimes I blow it off, sometimes I learn something. I'm Liberal, but I don't fit into any mold, and I appreciate intelligence.

Answer 8

Blocking people is cowardice short and simple. If they are posting BS then argue against it. If they are pointing out flaws in your argument then learn from it. If they are just idiots like JohnB then ignore them. But blocking them is just indicating you are too insecure to take them on. Cowardice!

Answer 9

A couple of them have blocked me. It was after I disagrred with them. I may have even called them trolls. So what. It's still kind of a free country.

Answer 10

I don't understand that either and agree with you. I have two libs who have done the same thing with me and have no idea as to why or what I've done to offend them so much. It's not something that I lose any sleep over, that's for certain... But you do bring up a good point.