The Plethora of Leftist "Phobias"

“Therefore you have no excuse…when you judge [others], for in passing judgment on [them] you do the same things (Romans 2:1)

               A “phobia” is officially defined as “a type of anxiety disorder. It is a strong, irrational fear of something that poses little or no actual danger.”[1]  There is no doubt that phobias by this definition commonly exist, even among people who, otherwise, live relatively normal lives.  For this reason it is helpful for each of us to assess whether certain of our own fears actually accord with reality.  For example, even though I acknowledge that a fall from the “chain zone” on the official hike to the top of Angel’s Landing in Zion National Park would be fatal, I was able with pleasure to reach the top by persuading myself that calmly holding firmly to that chain would ensure my safe success (I grant that I also was encouraged by others along the trail).  On the other hand, I was actually revulsed this morning by a photo of a hiker standing, without handhold or barrier, at a precipice dropping 3,000’ into Yosemite Valley at Taft Point.  I was in this case seized by phobic fear.

          Yet the above is NOT the definition that leftists bother to employ when they habitually lob the charge of “phobic” at conservatives.  For example, Harry Potter writer J.K. Rowling, who has no conservative leanings at all as far as I can tell, just a few days ago was accused of “transphopia” for expressing her expectation of safe spaces for women.  It is vital to note here that Rowling was never challenging the authenticity of the experiences that transgenders express…which is consistent with my views of transgender people even though I am a bonafide conservative.  My point here is that leftism expresses no desire to define phobias with intellectual care.  Since they apparently define a phobia as slight dissent of the “standard” line, I consider that I am entitled to list areas in which leftists betray their own phobias when defined according to their own standards.  Leftists of all stripes are thereby (cited in alphabetical order):

·        Accountabilophobic

·        Authoratophobic

·        Bibliophobic

·        Capitolistophobic

·        Christophobic

·        Competitiophobic

·        Conservatophobic

·        Cooperaphobic

·        Criticalthinkophobia

·        Curiositophobia

·        Dialogophobic

·        Factofobic

·        Foxophobic

·        Happiophobic

·        Heterophobic

·        Honestophobic

·        Humblaphobic 

·        Imperfectophobic

·        Investigatiophobic

·        Joyophobic

·        Libertiphobic

·        Lovaphobic

·        Mercilophobic

·        Meritophobic

·        Moraliphobic

·        Ratiophobic

·        Repentophobic (check meaning of “repent”)

·        Salvatiophobic

·        Thankfulophobic

·        Theophobic

·        Tolorophobic

·        Truthophobic

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[1] https://www.mentalhealth.gov/what-to-look-for/anxiety-disorders/phobias/