March 19, 2013

Delhi vs Steubenville

I just love it when right-wingers are mocking the perceived stupidity of left-wingers because it always boils down to the notion that ideas beyond the scope of their ideological indoctrination are simply to be called stupid. I have always admired the graceful simplicity of this cognitive pattern. A very abstract example would look like this:
Liberal: "2 + 2 + cos(0) = 5"
Conservative: "What? 2 + 2 + 0 = 5 ? Man, you're sooo stupid!"
Liberal: "You know, the cosine of..."
Conservative: "Oh, not again! Yet another brainwashed idiot who buys that Marxist nonsense about triangles!"