> ideas may be involved that do not agree with conventional liberal attitudes
I'm a royalist; I think the franchise is among the most harmful political concepts to come along in the past millennium. I recently spent a whole day's worth of HN participation arguing that gay marriage is a bad idea. And I think you're talking arrant nonsense here.
You may find it worthwhile to consider the possibility that people are taking your claims here to be ignorantly erroneous and insultingly advanced for some reason other than that you disagree with their prejudices, and that not every idea that disagrees with a prejudice is necessarily ennobled thereby.
I'm a royalist; I think the franchise is among the most harmful political concepts to come along in the past millennium. I recently spent a whole day's worth of HN participation arguing that gay marriage is a bad idea. And I think you're talking arrant nonsense here.
You may find it worthwhile to consider the possibility that people are taking your claims here to be ignorantly erroneous and insultingly advanced for some reason other than that you disagree with their prejudices, and that not every idea that disagrees with a prejudice is necessarily ennobled thereby.