Ugly? You May Have a Case (legal, radical, solution, ideology)

[SourD]

How could we remedy this injustice? With all the gains to being good-looking, you would think that more people would get plastic surgery or makeovers to improve their looks. Many of us do all those things, but as studies have shown, such refinements make only small differences in our beauty. All that spending may make us feel better, but it doesn’t help us much in getting a better job or a more desirable mate.
A more radical solution may be needed: why not offer legal protections to the ugly, as we do with racial, ethnic and religious minorities, women and handicapped individuals?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/op...ve-a-case.html


LOL...LMAO...ROFL...This right here folks is what circulates in the minds of Liberals and Progressives. This is so far out there all I can do is laugh... This would be totally impossible to do, but as usual, the academia crazies think it will work! What freaking NUTCASES!

[Wayland Woman]

This liberal finds the editorial just as laughable as you do. It was stupid and, more importantly, it's the opinion of just one person.

[Rggr]

Judge: This court finds that there is cause to move forward with this case because the plaintiff is in fact ugly as s*!t!

[djacques]

Roughly half the population is liberal, but I bet 90% of the country wouldn't be able to stop laughing at this.

[nimchimpsky]

I'm liberal and I thought that article was just as ridiculous as you did.

Please stop generalizing about all liberals. Thanks.

[highcotton]

Liberals are definitely ugly people...to the core.

[nightflight]

A "liberal" solution to the disparity between the attractive and the not would inevitably be one of making the attractive into not.

[Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus]

I'm not a liberal.

I find the line of thinking in that article to be consistent with the liberal idea of "egalitarianism." I find it amusing that when you show them the logical extreme of their own ideology, they laugh, because they recognize how stupid egalitarianism really is.

This leads me to believe that they don't actually support egalitarianism, they just use it as a cover to promote racial and gender minority interests.

[nimchimpsky]

Can posters who go out of their way to point out that they're not liberal please stop trying to talk for all liberals?

[Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus]

Originally Posted by nimchimpsky

Can posters who go out of their way to point out that they're not liberal please stop trying to talk for all liberals?

No. The people in question are unaware of their own cognitive dissonance, and if we left it up to them, the main idea would never be addressed.