I realise that you have to be pretty gutsy to be a conservative on Brin-L and I hope everyone here appreciates that fact. We should be thankful that *our* conservatives do not fit any of the stereotypes of the kind that are common to ...Say.... USENET.
I'm sorry, but this is nonsense. It doesn't take "guts" to be conservative in a discussion forum like this. I mean, so someone yells at you - so what? It's just talk on either side. No one's going to suffer anything other than maybe a bit of embarrassment. Guts is living as a gay person in a homophobic world, for example, or trying to be a liberal in a country where conservatives have turned it into "the l-word" and question our very loyalty to our country. Maybe it's uncomfortable to be the only conservative here, but so what? That's not our fault - anyone can join this list, and if conservatives don't, well, tough. I think you'd find that fandom as a whole tends to be pretty liberal - are we supposed to go out and recruit some right-wingers to balance things out? I thought conservatives didn't believe in affirmative action.l
Tom Beck
"I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never thought I'd see the last." - Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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