This isn't really a view...more of a pet peeve related to my view....

I really really hate it when people litter.

So I guess the view that I cannot stand is one of pro-littering.

I absolutely cannot stand that people play "Guess my politics" all the time. I have so many clients at work who assume that since I'm from a particular suburb and go to a Catholic school, I must be a die-hard Republican. I don't assume that everybody who wears Birkenstocks in the snow is in the Green party. :p

Ok here's a view I can't stand: You're supposed to act certain ways/like certain things/think certain thoughts because of your gender, age, race, etc.

Idi Amin - yep. The political orientation globally was much different back then. Uganda at the time was firmly Soviet-backed. Invading then could have led to a much larger conflict...at least that was the cold war logic of the time. The U.S. was just out of the debacle of Vietnam, and that also played a part where the military was trying to reform itself.

What really roils me is where did Amin end up when he finally (and recently) die? Our so-called "friends" of Saudi Arabia put him up in exile. Grrrrrrr........

Views I cannot stand:

The view that any black person who is not a Democrat MUST indeed be a sell out to their race

The belief that if you don't tolerate a particular form of behavior, you're a bigot, racist, homophobic etc..

The belief that Black people can't be racist

The belief that single mothers can do just as good as..or a better job as a FATHER and MOTHER.

The belief that God let all kinds of bad stuff happen in the world...but at the same time wanting to keep God and his word out of all facets of everyday life i.e. school, the workplace and marriage

The belief that Islam is a religion of peace

The belief that hollywood movies affect children the same as gangsta rap music

Dionysus my post might fit more under radical and controversial views!!:eek:

Oh and also...

The view that America is twisted, cruel, contradictory and every other negative thing folx can say about this country.....and my response is.... why don't u move! I will personally come and help you pack your bags!!!

Which is a lot like, "America, love it or leave it," which I think flies in the face of all of the good freedoms upon which the government was founded.

I don't like people who put the US down for the hell of it, but the right to disagree and make those disagreements known are rights protected by the First Amendment of our Bill of Rights.

Our forefathers came here so they could exercise those rights.

The thread is about views you dont like...not about the people you don't like.

And what exactly "flies in face of the good freedoms upon which the government was founded?" The fact that I can state what views I can't stand on the message board?? Or the fact that I'm saying if this is country is so terrible that people should move instead of staying in this so-called terrible place??

I am totally with you there!!!!!!!


I also dont like the views of Al Franken and friends..........yep.

I'll help them pack the bags too!!!!! :)

Stuff like that really ticks me off........

You can state almost anything you want on a message board.

I don't know you and have no feelings one way or the other about you personally, but, as I said, the "Love it or leave it" attitude is basically telling someone else they they don't have the right to state their views.

Where would the Civil Rights movement have gotten if all of it's champions had simply left without stating their views? How about women's rights? Gay rights? You know, some of those folks said some not very flattering things about the way things were/are in this country. Some were right and some were wrong, but a lot of good came from their dissention.

In my opinion, it can't go both ways.

I believe that the framers of our Republic wouldn't have said, "Love it or Leave It," but rather, if you don't like it, work for change. That's what dissenting views are about.

Ok, these are two of my pet peeves.

First of all, when people assume that because i'm a conservative from the south, that i'm automatically a racist. To me, the term racist gets thrown around way too easily in todays soceity and has harsh undertones(as well it should). But, simply that i disagree with someone of a different race does not mean that i therefore hate their race and am some kind of bigot.

And secondly, those types that feel that the more verbose their argument is, the more correct it is. It really bothers me when someone feels the need to stuff a post or comment full of impossible language, just to "appear" to be more educated and therefore sway their opposition into granting them some false sense of intellectual superiority. Some on GC have big problems with this.

Kitso
KS 361 words or less next time some of y'all post, please

9-11
 

I really can not stand when (always ignorant) people take the flippant view that 9-11 was an over-hyped, and isolated event that lasted one day.

For those of us who live in Lower Manhattan, the ramifications were severe for several months, and we still live with remnants of it every day. I lived under de-facto martial law for 4 months.

9-11 was the single most transforming day in my klife, and for millions of other people. In fact, for those who lived through the JFK assasination and 9-11, everyone I have spoken with says that 9-11 was an event that had a more transforming effect on their lives as well.

pro lifers

anti-feminists

religious nuts

pro-war ppl


....they all suck.

I can't stand...
 

Ultra-right religous wacko people.. ya know "Turn the Bible into a Constitutional amendment" type folks.

or

Ultra-left people as in "Save the trees, whales, gophers. To hell with Humans".

Both suck equally.