October 23, 2008 11:06 AM
Leftist hate speech
Jacquie writes:
Sarah Palin is a joke. She is NOT what a real American woman is like. She is a murderous slob.
That's it - all the complexities of the 2008 campaign distlled into a 20 word epithet by a drive-by bigot who's obviously been drinking the NBC 24/7 anti-Palin KoolAid.
Sadly, this is the level of rhetoric from our brothers and sisters on the left. The masters of hate speech. The paragons of our American education system. The people we love enough to spend time researching and then voting for the best candidates.
The Left thrives on an electorate that's riled up with hatred. Just check out their main source of information: The Daily Kos.
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Comments
You don't think that the "comic" you posted is equaly hateful as such a statement?
Posted by: Jae Lorette | October 24, 2008 12:11 AM
No Jae Lorette, I don't.
And I'm glad you gave me a chance to clear this up because the Left gets this wrong all the time.
An editorial cartoon weighing in through humor on a political party is different than a personal attack on an individual. The cartoon is a fair representation - albeit simplified - of how the Democrat Party views money: as something that belongs to the government to be distributed as it deems best.
That's a far cry from calling Palin a murderous slob or saying that Barbara Cush should have had an abortion.
And this is the problem when/if the Dems take over. They will brand anything - ANYTHING - critical of them as hate speech and shut it down. We will no longer have an open marketplace of ideas.
Alcoholics Anonymous teaches those in recovery a principle which has served me well, so I'll share it here:
Principles before personalities.A really good way to test your own emotional response to current events - and a good thing to teach your kids.
Posted by: barbara | October 24, 2008 6:22 AM
I do agree with what you say, a comic is one thing, a personal attack is another.
I don't think my response was as emotional as it was my tendency to be equal. I don't personally think either government will "solve" everything. They both have equal opposite flaws. I do think though that one should be able to accept as much criticism as they dispense.
Thank you for the lesson though, "principles before personalities" this is very practical.
Posted by: Jae Lorette | October 25, 2008 12:37 AM
