You can look different, as long as you don’t think different.

I’ve never read Just a Girl in Shorts before, and with the announcement that Becky is quitting, I guess I won’t do so in the future, either. She’s quitting because, once again, the blog has been flagged as being inappropriate by Blogger/Google (at the behest of a few readers, presumably).

Why was it flagged as inappropriate? The post from the first time that the blog was flagged may offer some insight:

I must say, I find it rather amusing that a website started by folks like Bill Bennett, is more tolerant, and less prudish, than the enlightened New Age Yuppies of Mountain View.

But I am not surprised. Although there have always been those who strenuously disagree with me, I noticed during all the months and years that I railed against George Bush, and what the Republican Party had become, conservatives, though often disagreeing with me, were regular visitors.

I started getting the bitchy stuff, and accusations of being a fascist, extreme right winger and puppy killer when I began to periodically comment on Barack Obama, and sometimes even question his divinity.

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Democrats always talk about their party being a big tent—but I don’t think there is room in that tent for those who are against abortion on demand, favor reducing the size and power of the federal government, or just believe that many of the policies of Barack Obama are a serious threat to the Republic.

You know, I don’t have a problem with the idea that liberals may not consider those who don’t share liberal ideals to be a part of their “tent”, but it always seems to me that they only tolerate people who are different from them physically (or sexually) if those people are the same politically. As Becky C. points out, she didn’t get the attacks when she was opposing George W. Bush and being read by conservatives on a regular basis. It was only when she started opposing Barack Obama that liberals started getting vicious.

That, in my mind, compares to Senator Barbara Boxer, who was accused of making “racial” comments because she pointed out statements by the NAACP and 100 Black Men Of Atlanta to counter arguments by President/CEO of the Black Chamber of Commerce, who (according to him), had actual evidence to back up what he wanted to say. Her stance, he says, is condescending. I tend to agree. Her stance seems to be that she seems to be saying that, well, these black people agree with me, so I don’t need to consider your evidence at all.

Liberals are “big tent” – they want all the people who don’t look like them to support them. If you don’t look like them, though, and refrain from thinking like them, a lot of them will viciously attack you for any reason they can get their hands on – even if all they can find is the very differences they would’ve embraced had you been on “their side”.