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AzNick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 03:13 AM Original message |
Would being a birther qualify someone as an idiot to you? |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 03:16 AM Response to Original message |
1. Would a female physician who supported Palin in 2008? |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 09:25 AM Response to Reply #1 |
16. I find the distinctions you've made to be reasonable and clear. We |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 01:15 PM Response to Reply #1 |
22. Supporting a dumb conservative is one thing. Declaring thoroughly debunked nonsense, conspiracy |
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era veteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 03:18 AM Response to Original message |
2. Yes, I am sure it either means racist or dumb ass or both |
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dmr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 03:33 AM Response to Original message |
3. I'd be concerned with their critical thinking skills, or |
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Keith Bee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 03:43 AM Response to Original message |
4. Once they see the plain truth and deny it? |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 03:44 AM Response to Original message |
5. Yes... |
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BlueMTexpat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 05:00 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. I'm with you, but you said it much better than I ever could! nt |
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kiranon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 03:13 PM Response to Reply #5 |
43. Agree. n/t |
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Proud Liberal Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 06:55 AM Response to Original message |
7. I wouldn't disqualify somebody over strange political beliefs |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 07:27 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. But birtherism isn't just a "strange political belief". |
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Proud Liberal Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 08:31 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. I don't know that there is anything unique about "birtherism" |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 08:39 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. But I didn't say I would "refuse to hire" them. |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 06:56 AM Response to Original message |
8. Once I find out someone is a birther, climate change denier, |
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GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 07:23 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Yep, that's been my experience,too. |
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Abq_Sarah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 12:51 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. I don't consider opposition to my own views |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 07:51 AM Response to Original message |
11. I wildly oppose the entire idea of checking a person's politics |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 06:41 PM Response to Reply #11 |
30. ^ ITA with BlueNorthwest ^ |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 12:08 AM Response to Reply #11 |
34. It's not a person's politics... |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 12:09 PM Response to Reply #11 |
40. Don't worry. Once declined, they'll pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 08:34 AM Response to Original message |
13. Depends on their other qualifications and qualities -- and the nature of the job |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 08:52 AM Response to Original message |
15. It is illegal to ask about political afllilitation in an interview |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
17. I would rank them up there with the Truthers |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
19. As an idiot and a racist. n/t |
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Fire1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
20. Yes! Birthers' do qualify as "idiots." n/t |
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GameOn (86 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
21. when a black man named Barack Hussein Obama runs agains the wife of a former POTUS. Then runs |
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CakeGrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
23. Yes. This person is an obtuse, illogical individual. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 04:46 PM Response to Original message |
24. Yes, just as someone being a 9/11 "Truther" qualifies someone as an idiot in my eyes |
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Ferret Annica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
25. Birther is synonymous to brain death |
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Spinny Liberal (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
26. I think I would DQ |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
27. Yes. |
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RandomKoolzip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
28. A stupid political belief is no barometer of workplace competence. |
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tledford (633 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
29. Being a birther proves racism, not idiocy, and I wouldn't hire a racist. eom |
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JayceR (33 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
31. As a Racist, Hypocritical Moron... Hell Yes! |
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ReturnoftheDjedi (839 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
32. yes. yes, it would. |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-25-11 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
33. If they are an idiot cognitive tests and college scoreswill prove it |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 06:15 AM Response to Original message |
35. If they're willing to hang it out there then it says something doesn't it. |
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joe1991 (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 06:24 AM Response to Original message |
36. it's similiar to religious beliefs |
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CakeGrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 11:23 PM Response to Reply #36 |
45. Not really the same. This isn't a subjective issue. |
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Balbus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 08:10 AM Response to Original message |
37. Yep. That and those "stolen election" nutters. |
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Azathoth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 08:28 AM Response to Original message |
38. How does he present his arguments? |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
39. I would not hire such a person |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
41. They may be deluded, so are people who believe authority is a quality of the government. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
42. I'd try to stick tight to job qualification considerations. I've met all kinds of people |
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Zoeisright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-26-11 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
44. Yes. |
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