Comments on: Caring is Creepy http://blawgcoop.com/badglacier/2005/04/19/caring-is-creepy/ Whee! Thu, 17 May 2012 11:30:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Josh http://blawgcoop.com/badglacier/2005/04/19/caring-is-creepy/#comment-505 Thu, 21 Apr 2005 04:10:23 +0000 http://blawgcoop.com/badglacier/2005/04/19/caring-is-creepy/#comment-505 Of course, in certain groups, it will be easier to fit in as a liberal or a conservative or whatever, and there will be people (perhaps significant numbers of them) that go along in order to fit in (even if fitting in means being "different" like everyone else). It's just the sweeping generalizations that I object to--this one more than most. I mean, is this stuff really "safe to say" about "the vast majority" of Daily Show watchers? C'mon. If I said, "All generalizations are bad," would you hurt me? Y'know, because I made a generalization about generalizations! Ha! I crack myself up. But no, really, I think writers should be careful about using generalizations, because the world is nuanced, and it's just lazy to ignore that. Of course, in certain groups, it will be easier to fit in as a liberal or a conservative or whatever, and there will be people (perhaps significant numbers of them) that go along in order to fit in (even if fitting in means being “different” like everyone else). It’s just the sweeping generalizations that I object to–this one more than most. I mean, is this stuff really “safe to say” about “the vast majority” of Daily Show watchers? C’mon.

If I said, “All generalizations are bad,” would you hurt me?

Y’know, because I made a generalization about generalizations! Ha! I crack myself up.

But no, really, I think writers should be careful about using generalizations, because the world is nuanced, and it’s just lazy to ignore that.

]]> by: J http://blawgcoop.com/badglacier/2005/04/19/caring-is-creepy/#comment-504 Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:04:46 +0000 http://blawgcoop.com/badglacier/2005/04/19/caring-is-creepy/#comment-504 Yeah, well, growing up where I did (Nebraska), it was "cool" to be conservative at my high school & tons of people mindlessly went along. Maybe they did all go to college places & suddenly adopt a poser-liberal cool attitude. But probably not -- first of all, about half of my class of 700 didn't go to college... Yeah, well, growing up where I did (Nebraska), it was “cool” to be conservative at my high school & tons of people mindlessly went along. Maybe they did all go to college places & suddenly adopt a poser-liberal cool attitude. But probably not — first of all, about half of my class of 700 didn’t go to college…

]]> by: Taco John http://blawgcoop.com/badglacier/2005/04/19/caring-is-creepy/#comment-503 Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:35:38 +0000 http://blawgcoop.com/badglacier/2005/04/19/caring-is-creepy/#comment-503 While Stein is making a huge generalization, I think there's a portion of the population that he's dead on about. There's a large group of college students who find that it's cool to be liberal. In fact, there's a whole dorm of people at IU who seem to be anti-establishment, Bohemian, and for lack of a better word, hippies. However, insiders will tell you that it's basically a bunch of kids who can't fit in except, inronically, by not conforming. So being liberal, whether they believe it or not, is just their way of fitting in. On the flip side, and not mentioned in the article, is that a ton of college students give up their beliefs and take on a conservative view if they think their profession demands it (B-school students, I'm talking to you). While Stein is making a huge generalization, I think there’s a portion of the population that he’s dead on about. There’s a large group of college students who find that it’s cool to be liberal. In fact, there’s a whole dorm of people at IU who seem to be anti-establishment, Bohemian, and for lack of a better word, hippies. However, insiders will tell you that it’s basically a bunch of kids who can’t fit in except, inronically, by not conforming. So being liberal, whether they believe it or not, is just their way of fitting in. On the flip side, and not mentioned in the article, is that a ton of college students give up their beliefs and take on a conservative view if they think their profession demands it (B-school students, I’m talking to you).

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