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The day feminist icon Alice Walker resigned as my mother
The Times (UK) ^ | May 4, 2008 | Margarette Driscoll

Posted on 05/05/2008 7:50:19 AM PDT by jalisco555

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To: jalisco555
“Another prominent leftist who loves The People in the abstract but is horrid to the individuals in her life. “

You're exactly right and this has been my exact experience and thoughts about and with my so called “liberal” friends, relatives and acquaintances in my life.

It's called hypocrisy. It's called blindness.

21 posted on 05/05/2008 8:31:49 AM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam. TWP VRWC)
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To: CaptainK
Just another in a long line of leftists who cared about every family in the world but their own.

These liberal/progressives jam their advice down everyone's throats on how to live and they don't want to take the blame for when it goes wrong.

22 posted on 05/05/2008 8:35:43 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: jalisco555

Pro-abortion women BREAK the maternal ties with their children and don’t even realize it.....it makes the children DOUBT whether they would have been aborted or not.


23 posted on 05/05/2008 8:40:41 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: jalisco555
Her circle were questioning power relationships and whether a mother had any more knowledge than a child

If this statement is true, it makes absolutely no sense that the mother has total control over whether the child is allowed to live or be killed by literally being torn into pieces.

Totally contradictory ideas!! No wonder feminazis are so messed up!

24 posted on 05/05/2008 8:43:01 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: jalisco555; Arm_Bears; EyeGuy

Walker’s lousy parenting sounds to me like it was just a symptom of swaggering self-absorption, of the sort that can appear in people of all sorts of ideological persuasions. Idiocy like criticizing her daughter as hopelessly ignorant of important things because she’s “not from the South” has nothing to do with any brand of “feminism”. Walker was in the South when she married Rebecca’s father, so whose fault is it that she moved away and took her daughter to grow up elsewhere? Alice Walker’s problem is that she’s an arrogant jerk, not that she’s a “feminist”.


25 posted on 05/05/2008 8:47:37 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: sr4402

They want to take care of “The Children” at a distance and with taxpayer money, none of that messy stuff.


26 posted on 05/05/2008 8:56:55 AM PDT by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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To: Arm_Bears

What did Obama or his wife say “punished by having a baby?”


27 posted on 05/05/2008 8:58:34 AM PDT by purpleraine
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To: Arkansas Toothpick
My wife, a school teacher, works with an educational consultant in her school who is constantly spouting drivel about how we need to do more for the children. However, she has said that she never wants kids of her own and doesn’t understand how we could want children.

It's all an abstraction to them.

28 posted on 05/05/2008 9:00:09 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: y6162

Liberals love the IDEA of children—but not always the reality. They love the IDEA of freedom, but often find the reality of it quite intimidating. They are not unlike the Scribes and Pharisees: they loved the IDEA of God—but not so much His Reality.

Fortunately, (and not just for liberals), despite their self-righteous indignation at having the validity of their Idea questioned, and their insistence on preserving that Idea even to the point of destroying the flesh and blood which embodied it, that Reality’s response in the end was to offer up a prayer for forgiveness.

Now that is real—and LIBERAL—love!


29 posted on 05/05/2008 9:00:32 AM PDT by milagro
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To: y6162

Liberals love the IDEA of children—but not always the reality. They love the IDEA of freedom, but often find the reality of it quite intimidating. They are not unlike the Scribes and Pharisees: they loved the IDEA of God—but not so much His Reality.

Fortunately, (and not just for liberals), despite their self-righteous indignation at having the validity of their Idea questioned, and their insistence on preserving that Idea even to the point of destroying the flesh and blood which embodied it, that Reality’s response in the end was to offer up a prayer for forgiveness.

And that is Love most liberal!


30 posted on 05/05/2008 9:01:13 AM PDT by milagro
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To: AD from SpringBay
Liberals in English Departments love her black woman voice - sames goes for Maya Angelou. Neither have written much quality in the last decade or so.

Will anybody read anything written by those two 50 years from now? Only if forced to by English teachers, I predict.

31 posted on 05/05/2008 9:01:34 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: jalisco555
All together now...

IT'S FOR THE CHILL'RUN...

32 posted on 05/05/2008 9:09:56 AM PDT by weegee (Roger Waters has turned his concerts into the tyrannical political rallies he once warned of....)
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To: jalisco555

A conservative mother and father can do, what a whole liberal village cannot.


33 posted on 05/05/2008 9:12:43 AM PDT by Fichori (FreeRepublic.com: Watch your step!)
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To: GOPJ

Question authority. ESPECIALLY question the authority of the socialist radical who seeks to overthrow the dominant cultural values and replace them with “what”? A socialist utopia? How well does that EVER work?

Liberals have a god complex and believe they can “create” a better world. THEY are the ones. THEY must be in charge. And if in the end, 50million babies have been torn apart through abortion, well, their intentions were GOOD.


34 posted on 05/05/2008 9:13:21 AM PDT by weegee (Roger Waters has turned his concerts into the tyrannical political rallies he once warned of....)
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To: AD from SpringBay

I actually enjoyed The Color Purple as well as a short story called, ‘The Revelation’. Never bought into her liberal feminist crap though. As far as Angelou, she’s too full of herself.


35 posted on 05/05/2008 9:21:03 AM PDT by rintense (McCain can pound sand.)
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To: jalisco555

I always say they love the masses. It’s people they hate.


36 posted on 05/05/2008 9:45:21 AM PDT by Marysecretary (.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
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To: jalisco555
and told her that in any case their relationship had been “inconsequential” for years.

This seems like a special story because the mother is a Feminazi; however, millions of latch-key-children are getting the very same message as they come home to empty houses after school.

37 posted on 05/05/2008 9:46:24 AM PDT by donna ("I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth." - Barack Hussein Obama)
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I feel bad for the daughter. Though she is a liberal, even she is far too the right of her nutcase mother - Alice Walker.

Stalin would have loved Alice Walker - both way to the left and both treated their children like dirt. Stalin was rare among history’s evil dictators as most at least treated their children as if they loved them.


38 posted on 05/05/2008 10:01:22 AM PDT by ohioman
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I asked whether she thought it was a little strange that I wrote about my struggle in an attempt to get her to take care of me, but here we were, talking about how I should be taking care of her.

Narcissism at it's finest. The daughter was lucky...often narcissists fly into a murderous rage when they are outed.

39 posted on 05/05/2008 10:03:15 AM PDT by Red Boots
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To: Red Boots

I think you are right on. Alice Walker is exactly like Tony Sopranos mom.


40 posted on 05/05/2008 10:05:13 AM PDT by ohioman
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