/pol/ - International /Pol/itics & /Bant/er

- 2 Genders = The Queers are Scary! Let's ban them from using bathrooms and ban queer kids from playing sports so bigots vote for us! Just to be clear, do conservatives think intersex people really don't exist? Do they really believe a trans man with a dick should go to the women's room and play on womens sports teams? that's what their laws are demanding. Oh unless this is all culture war bullshit targeting a community too small and powerless to fight back.
- Free Speech > Your Feelings = Don't Criticize Racists for being Racist! If you do that's censorship! If conservatives cared about free speech how come they elected the guy that literally prosecutes people who say bad stuff about him and his cronies?
- Illegal Immigration is a Crime = Keep Brown People Out! Conservatives didnt give a shit when the immigrants were Irish or Italian or German for some reason.
- Not Every Culture is Equal = While People > Brown People! Do conservatives believe that in the ~500-1000 years of the European dark ages that "western" culture was "less than" the cultures of brown people who dominated intellectually and economically?
- Meritocracy > Equality = White Men are inherently superior and should have all the good jobs! Any instance of a woman or brown person having a good job with autonomy (ie. not just a rubber stamp for a white man up the chain), conservatives think they should be fired and replaced with an inexperienced alcoholic like Pete Hegseth.
- History isn't always Pretty = Don't criticize colonial powers for all the mass killing and subjugation of nations and peoples! But conservatives also believe you should cover up the ugly parts of America's history because a lot of its pretty recent and really highlights the fact that white supremacy has shaped the present and continues to do so.
- Parents > the Government = Kill the Government and Let the Rich Rule! GOP governments overrule parents at every turn: family planning, children's health care, which books that can be in libraries for children, whether and which religion is pushed on them at school - conservatives will tell YOU how you can raise you kids. But every area where the government tries to help people or stop harm by corporations and the rich must be dismantled. Almost like its not really about parents rights…
- Personal Responsibility Matters - Poors only! If you are born poor, conservatives believe its your personal responsibility to fix a situation you had literally nothing to do with creating. If you are born rich, you have no personal responsibility - take after the king: multiple kids from multiple women: AOK! Adultery: no problem! Multiple bankruptcies? Good job! Screwing your debtors? What a genius! Need a government bailout? OK for the rich!
- The Nuclear Family: Poors only! Real conservative men dump their family as soon as their wife hits 40.