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Old 06-18-2008, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by smart makes a comeback View Post
A silly generalization...you know better


Progressive thought and actions and reflection are far from mutually exclusive, in fact, intelligent reflection is part of being truly progressive, as opposed to being reactionary, and casting progressives into gas chambers, forcing women to cover their ankles, or claiming dominion over a women’s uterus
Not much. Progressives believe in progress. Progress has a strange meaning to many people. In the 30's, as i said, progressives believed in forced sterilization of idiots because they believed it was "scientific". They supported Marxism for much the same reason. This is not my opinion, you can go back and read the arguments. There is a reason my Marx (and his followers) referred to his system as "scientific dialectic".

You cannot discount people who claim to be "progressives" by saying that they are not "true" progressives anymore than conservatives can discount the nasty things that conservatism has been used to defend.
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