Are You a Liberal?
It is my belief that about half of the Americans who call themselves
liberal do not hold the great majority of positions held by
mainstream liberal institutions such as the New York Times
editorial page, People for the American Way, and the liberal
wing of the Democratic Party. So here is a test of this thesis
to be given to anyone who believes he or she is a liberal.
If you feel I have omitted a liberal position or have unfairly
characterized any of them here, please email me. This is still
a work in progress.
Thank you,
Dennis Prager
You say you are a liberal.
Do you believe the following?
- Standards for admissions to universities,
fire departments, etc. should be lowered for people of color.
- Bilingual
education for children of immigrants, rather than immersion
in English, is good for them and for
America.
- Murderers should never be put to death.
- During the Cold War,
America should have adopted a nuclear arms freeze.
- Colleges
should not allow ROTC programs.
- It was wrong to wage war against
Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War.
- Poor parents should not be
allowed to have vouchers to send their children to private
schools.
- It is good that trial lawyers and teachers
unions are the two biggest contributors
to the Democratic
Party.
- Marriage should be redefined from male-female
to any two people.
- A married couple should not
have more of a right to adopt a child than two men or
two women.
- The Boy Scouts should not be allowed
to use parks or any other public places
and should
be
prohibited
from using
churches
and synagogues for their meetings.
- The present
high tax rates are good.
- Speech codes on college campuses
are good and American values are bad.
- The Israelis and Palestinians
are morally equivalent.
- The United Nations is a moral force
for good in the world, and therefore
America should be
subservient to
it and such
international institutions as a
world court.
- It is good that colleges have
dropped hundreds of men's
sports teams in order to meet
gender-based quotas.
- No abortions can be labeled
immoral.
- Restaurants should be prohibited
by law from allowing customers
to choose between
a smoking
and a non-smoking
section.
- High schools should make
condoms available to students and teach them
how to use them.
- Racial profiling
for terrorists is wrong -- a white American grandmother
should as
likely be
searched
as
a Saudi young
male.
- Racism and poverty -- not
a lack of fathers and a crisis
of
values
-- are the
primary
causes of violent
crime in
the inner city.
- It is wrong and
unconstitutional for students to be told, "God
bless you" at their graduation.
- No
culture is morally superior
to any other.
Those are all
liberal positions. How many of them do you hold? |