OK, trapeze, you're admitting that you're getting your information second- or third-hand, same as me.
Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one.
Carry on.
Admitting? You say that like it's a
bad thing.
No, I'm quite proud of having the intellectual wherewithal to not go anywhere near the place.
Come to think of it, I've never walked through any of our nation's burned out urban crime zones with a sign on my back that says, "I'm unarmed and carrying a big bag of money! What are you going to do about it?" But using your line of thinking I would have to do so in order to offer a qualified opinion on crime.
To say that one's opinion on OWS is somehow lacking because they haven't gotten down in the muck and experienced it up close and personal is shallow. Liberals use that technique all the time. They will say that your opinion on the war is invalid unless you have been in the military
and served in combat
in the infantry. They will say that your opinion on anything affecting, say, women is invalid unless you are a woman and a liberal woman at that. They
have said that Herman Cain isn't a bonafide black man (whatever that is) because he did not personally participate in any of the civil rights demonstrations during the sixties. It goes on and on and on.
Why adopt such an absurd argument in regard to OWS?
We have eyes. We have ears. And those of us old enough to remember the sixties have memories.
There is nothing new under the sun. A rose by a different name will smell as sweet. Same sh*t, different day. A liberal is a liberal. A socialist is a socialist. A squalid hippy farm is a squalid hippy farm.
You go there. Knock yourself out. Rub elbows with the Marxists, Nazis, anti-semites, SEIU thugs, anarchists, criminals and the mentally ill. Let me know how it was. Then your opinion will truly be valid or something.
