Posted on 09/18/2015 5:04:59 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Left-wingers are more likely to use swear words than their right-leaning counterparts, a study of thousands of Twitter accounts has suggested.
While conservative-leaning individuals are, perhaps unsurprisingly, more likely to use religious terms such as “God” and “psalm”, those on the liberal end of the political spectrum are heavy users of “f***” and “s***” online.
Researchers at Queen Mary University in London analyzed more than 10,000 Twitter users who follow either the Republican or Democrat party Twitter accounts. […]
Conservatives, who “are more likely to emphasize group identity and consensus” according to the researchers, tended to use group terms like “we” and “our”, while terms like “I” and “me” were used by liberals more often. …
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Totally true. It makes an otherwise cowardly, elitist appear street tough.
Profanity is the crutch of the conversational cripple.
I noticed that years ago. Liberals are almost always far more rude, and crude. That all started in the 1960’s.
Profanity is the crutch of the conversational cripple.........................Vocabulary challenged, aka stupid? Standing on line at the polls its easy to tell who is voting for whom by the way they talk and by their expressions.
Well of course. What I’d like to see are some stats. Are lefties 10 times more likely to use the F word in their internet writings or 100 times?
Profanity is the appeal to emotion over logic; a staple of Leftists.
It goes right along with their habit of leaving mounds of garbage at political gatherings or wherever they congregate.
I’ve got 29,000 Twitter followers and I Tweet A LOT, mostly conservative politics. When I get trolled by libs, the language is generally so foul it can make a longshoreman blush. Really sick stuff, and I’m not exactly a shrinking violet.
They really have a mental problem.
Well, profanity is the effect of a weak mind trying to express itself forcibly.
My use of profanity is up ten fold since 2008
I would suspect several reasons for this:
First they only react with emotion
Second they are politically correct crippled
Third, between the first two they are in denial of the facts of life. Indeed in so much denial, they cannot even allow themselves alternative thoughts or ideas.
Forth if they do pursue an alternative thought that logically violates their politically correct ideologies, they become frustrated and angry.
Fifth, they cannot accept that everybody doesn’t win in a debate, life, games therefore they refuse to accept facts and to move logically to the conclusion.
Why wouldn’t libs swear more? They don’t have God in their lives, generally speaking. It’s a no-brainer.
Well, just today I did a custom Google search of some websites, using f*ck, f*ucks, f*ucking, and f*ucked as keywords. Here are the results:
democraticunderground.com: 765,000 hits
dailykos.com: 136,000 hits
huffingtonpost.com: 38,000 hits
freerepublic.com: 20,600 hits
It isn't dispositive because some of the usages, especially on FR, are in context or quotations. Such is not the case on the other sites.
When I get trolled by libs, the language is generally so foul it can make a longshoreman blush.
When I worked construction in my youth, because I didn’t swear, those around me noticed and stopped. Don’t think that is true today. There was an element of respect of others back then that doesn’t exist today?
I always offer up a thesaurus. So that they can enlarge their vocabulary. :-)
We here at FR have known this for a long time. Profanity is the calling card of the left. And their tactics extend far beyond just profanity since they can bend and break rules with impunity.
We needed a study to confirm this?
Just go to the DUmmies and see the profanity. And if they have an avatar of a rainbow flag, the profanity doubles and triples.
Conservatives, who “are more likely to emphasize group identity and consensus” according to the researchers, tended to use group terms like “we” and “our”, while terms like “I” and “me” were used by liberals more often. …
One of the principles of conservatism is “we stand on the shoulders of giants”. We look at history for ideas to unite us. Consensus is not it, which gives an impression of?
Hopefully conservatives are united around ideas and principles but some times at FR I begin to wonder. There is a lot of “I” and “me” here, but that is a sign of the end times when everyone does what is right in their own minds.
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