Dos the Left Hate Pride?

[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by pickled_heretic [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Your explicit assertion: liberals hate pride
Your tacit assertion: pride is a good thing and people who hate pride are bad, therefore liberals are bad
My assertion: it is literally a basic tenet of christianity that pride is the worst possible sin

Now. I generally prefer to let people draw their own conclusions from facts rather than spell them out, but here's a few obvious ones if you got lost somewhere along the way:

Most people in the US (regardless of political affiliation) are christian, and if they follow those tenets they should call patent bullshit on the aforementioned assumption that pride is a good thing

An even higher percentage of the political right are christian than the US population at large, and should be even more inclined than said population at large to espouse the concept of pride being sinful and wrong

If they aren't/don't, they are being hypocritical, which I'm assuming everyone agrees is bad...

I think it is obvious that you could then draw the following conclusion (irrespective of your actual religious affiliation, which I do not care to know):

anyone who criticizes a specific group of a specific like or dislike of a behavior without acknolwedging and understanding that a much larger group also has that exact same behavior codified in their belief system is simply ignoring reality, or, they are also tacitly accusing that group of hypocrisy.

Oh ok, so you were angry that I wasn't being inclusive. I had assumed (i know, you, me, ass, I get it) that you were suggesting I was somehow ambassador of the population you are angry with since you were somehow linking something I said with hypocrisy on their behalf. I hadn't really considered how the right views pride though. Wasn't part of the inspiration. We can discuss that in the future though, or you can start your own thread.

What do you think though? Does the left hate pride? Do you? Why?