Dumb things Liberals say

1) "Natural" "organic" food is always better than "processed" modified food.

Dirt is "natural" but it is not good for you. The fact is that science has made it possible for food to remain fresh longer and for farmers to produce higher yields. These are good things.

2) "Natural" remedies are better than modern medicine.

Again, the idea seems to be that big corporations (in this case pharmaceutical companies) just want to make money and are lying to the public about the effectiveness of their food or medicine. The truth is that modern medicine has allowed people to live longer and healthier and that vaccines, in particular, have all but eliminated diseases like measles, polio and smallpox.

3) Rape is not about sex: it is about power.

Rape is about sex: this does not mean that rape is okay because sex and love are not the same thing. The fact is that sex is, for most people, a basic need. Power is not a basic need: in the hierarchy of needs, the need for power comes after the needs for food, drink, warmth, shelter, love, sex, social interaction and privacy. If anything, power is a means to an end and not an end in itself: people seek power (and money) in order to facilitate meeting their needs.

4) Only white people can be racist because only white people have power.

First of all, it is not true that only white people have power: this is not the colonial era and countries around the world have their own governments which are not all run by white people. Second, it is not power that makes a person racist but rather their beliefs about and attitudes towards people of other races: power just makes it easier for them to have their way with people.

5) If 1% of the population has most of the wealth then they stole it from the other 99%.

This is demonstratably untrue: if someone comes up with a new idea for a website of a type of restaurant or a type of store and they get rich it is because people willingly paid money for something they wanted. A corollary to this is the idea that big corporations are run by evil people whereas small businesses are run by good people: all big corporations started out as small businesses.