Comment · Sun, September 2, 2012

I found this Gem on Facebook "To All Parents: Keep your Children away from Reddit.com"

What they were answering

jlwestsr · 7 points

Yep that's what happens when you are a software developer and everything is coded. You tend to take short cuts on spelling. I don't use spellchecker for a reason. :P

u/MisterYouAreSoDumb

But your misspellings were not shortcuts, they were just misuses of the words. In any event, it's posts like those that fuel the ridicule of the right. It immediately begins with a fear tactic. Then it lowers itself to personal insults of the members of the site. Then is makes sweeping generalizations of the intentions of the site, and who controls it. The only saving grace is your last two sentences, which at that point seem very disingenuous.

I have been a Republican my whole life. Lately I do not associate with the party anymore, due to their increased insanity. However, it still makes me upset to see this ridiculous game keep playing out. Ohh, the liberal left is trying to indoctrinate our children and push their social agenda. The conservative right hates gay people, is uneducated, and doesn't listen to facts. It's ridiculous, but then someone steps up and fills the stereotype again. If everyone would stop being so obtuse and realize that both sides have something to bring to the table, then we could advance our country! I'm on Reddit all day long and I'm not being brainwashed. If anything, I am a better rounded person now, due to hearing many different viewpoints. I would hope that you can see how limiting the type of thinking is in your post, and hopefully refrain from perpetuating that stereotype further. Just because you don't agree with all the ideas on here, does not mean that you should ignore them until they go away. And it certainly does not mean using fear to influence other people's opinions either.

Rant off. Welcome to Reddit!

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