What other things can you think of?
I will try to highlight some things since I got a long-winded thing on this.
Social Justice is Bullshit
Tell them that it's more important to help people who need it most than people who have supposedly been unjustly treated. Tell them eagerness for justice in all but the most present and demanding of circumstances is a bad mindset.
Take reparations for slavery as a hot political topic today. Consider an example where person A is an black American millionaire who descended from slavery, but thanks to the merits (or possibly sheer luck or some combo of both) of themselves and/or their closest ancestors, they are now millionaires despite having been underdogs in society. Then compare person B who, let's say, is a white person but born disabled and put up for adoption by their teenage white biological mother who was raped and wanted nothing to do with them, grew up in foster care, and they don't have a penny to their name.
Who is more "deserving" of our collective compensation between A and B? What is "justice" here? Who can say?
And that seems to require a lot less knowledge ("social justice", especially when it wants to make perpetrators out of entire collective groups of people, seems to demand near-omnipotent levels of knowledge) and risks no vindictive modes of thinking if we simply ask how to make society "better" for the people who need it most than "just".
The Pitfalls of Social Justice
Justice in any form tends to be divisive between perpetrator and victim. It's an understandable necessity that we seek it when someone is immediately wronged to prevent the wrongdoer from wronging more people. Yet "social justice" often veers towards cases where there is no clean perpetrator: they've long-passed in the case of reparations for the crimes of some people's ancestors, or they're so ill-defined into such a broad group of people that it cannot possibly be the case that all members of that group are at fault.
Divisiveness Always Hurts Those Most in Need
Just as it is the case that children are those who hurt most when their parents are divided, what tends to happen in my observations when we focus on justice with no clear and living perpetrator of said injustice is that we get extreme divisiveness on a societal scale, and that extreme divisiveness has a tendency to make each special interest group more selfish because a highly divided society is a society where the divided groups no longer care about serving each other because they're so divided that they can no longer see how serving each other's interests is in their own self-interest.
Then the people in the groups inclined to suffer the most do tend to suffer the most if only due to the divisiveness. If we want a more selfless society, we have to make it less divisive, and I really think the term, "social justice", has a tendency to perpetually divide society in counter-productive ways despite its noble intentions.
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I'll speak for real liberals because I refuse to surrender the term to socialists.
A REAL liberal would be upset by things that remove LIBERTY. Things like censoring speech, things like forced vaccinations, gun rights taken away, being forced to fight in a way because of a mandatory draft, being prevented from accessing information freely, etc.And of course the fact people keep calling communists and socialists liberals, they are very far from liberals. Anyone who cheered on the lockdowns for example is as far from a liberal as you can get.
Those are all true, but TDS is a phenomena I've never seen before. My brother's dog can't speak English (yet) but she can read five words. In dog years, she's old enough to be the president.
And to add to your list, libs aren't capable of distinguishing the difference between an immigrant and an illegal immigrant. How long will it be before people who do home invasions in the middle of the night, are referred to as "undocumented house guests?"
Number one would have to be diversity of opinion. They always like to go on about how diversity in and of itself is a good thing, but not that for some weird reason.
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The myopic viewpoint of what patriotism is bothers me. Attending a protest, civil disobedience, tweeting your reps obscene criticisms, flag burning, organizing for policy changes, donating to the ACLU, not standing or taking a knee during national anthem are ALL forms of patriotism. Thomas Jefferson put it best I think, "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism".
Straight white people.
Liberty.
Self defense.
Defending our border.
Criticizing their policies.
Punishing criminals who are members of "oppressed communities".
Protecting children from sexual perverts and physical mutilation.Heteronormativity
Proper English
Scholastic standards
Accountability
Success
The Truth
Statues
Trucks
Christmas
Police officers
Jewish people that aren't dead or atheist
Fences
Black RepublicansI understand 1, 3–5, and 8, but why would secure elections, personal responsibility, or science upset a liberal?
I haven't seen liberals deny science, ignore someone's personal crimes, or try to overthrow an election that didn't go their way...
Aren't conservatives the ones always denying climate change and are anti-vaxxers. So everyone hates science?
Picture ID's to vote. Make cheating almost impossible. Any new business over the environment. The Bible. Adults not being allowed to have sex with kids. Using Her , Him.
The best way to upset a liberal is to say Israel has a right to exist. They detest that!
Being a 'liberal', I can safely state that what upsets us the most is the utter stupidity and/or the wilful ignorance of. And after reading the question and the majority of these posts, I rest my case.
Telling them the unconvenient truth just like most humans don't want to hear especially regarding their personal sins they don't want to repent of.
Liberals are politically on the center or these days even more to the right. You are thinking of progressives.
ANY thing/process/method/support/training/education that teach people to be self-sufficient, and able to make up their own minds.
All of the above and privacy, middle class and proper ways to enter the country legally
People who vote for party over country regardless of their political party.
corporate welfare
tax breaks for the rich
pollution
It's pretty hard to upset a liberal. Oh wait, you meant the Woke Activists?
Guns and the second amendment
Guns... pick up trucks LOL
Logic a lot of times😂
people breathing, smiling and having fun.
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