BTW, your writing style is superrior to 94.2% of your DUmmie brethren.
Posted on 05/13/2005 6:47:37 AM PDT by independantbitch
Hello. I am a college student that has gotten interested in politics within the last few years. I come from a long line of independants who raised me to vote for whom I agree with the most, not based on party affiliation.
Last night, I attended a performance of Margaret Cho in Indianapolis. One of the last things she mentioned was all of the hatemail she recieved from members of Free Republic. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Surely this has to be a joke. So when I got home, I read the hatemail on her website. Then I logged onto this site and read some more. It wasn't a joke.
Call me naive, but it seems to me that Margaret Cho is so "hateful" because, like me, she is angry and doesn't understand why people are so afraid of giving others equal rights. If gays and minorities contribute to the workforce, pay their taxes, and want to enjoy the rights that other Americans (straight whites) do, why shouldn't they be allowed that? What are conservatives so afraid of? It was interesting to me that when posters had no legitimate argument, they resorted to making comments about Cho's weight and race as a negative, which reminds me of how sixth graders behave. I was disgusted with the comments posted by the members, and it saddened me that these people are probably teaching their own kids racism, homophobia, and bigotry at home.
Please explain to me, without being so racist, bigoted, and just plain nasty as you were about Ms. Cho, why so many conservatives feel that it's perfectly fine to limit the rights of people they don't identify with, why it's okay for pharmacists to refuse contraceptives base on their own opinions, and why you believe that it's okay for Dubya to limit choice, freedom, and continue to make it easier for corporations to harm the environment.
It doesn't make sense to me, how seemingly intelligent people are so adament about taking a step backward. I would like to hear your thoughts, since I only have one Republican friend, and the only thing he'll say is that he's a Republican b/c his dad is, and that he's just against partial birth abortion.
P.S., I would especially like to hear from those of you who wrote the hatemail to Margaret Cho, because I am interested in what you have to say about this...
G.M. Young
Thanks! She gets it alright...a very baiting post, definitley looking for a fight instead of "answers".
I think it was a new plan. Send a smart one. Where did they find a smart person at the DU?
Must have been a new member. The longer they're there, the dumber they get. DU is an IQ sucking miracle.
Welcome to Free Republic. Do you like moose cheese?
Why would anyone waste time, money, energy and synapses writing a letter to an un-funny, never was, never ran, Fag Hag?
When it's so much easier to express opinions about her in a thread?
Target acquired... Whistle up the Viking Kittens!
Jack.
On a side note, I feel I lose IQ points waiting in line at the DMV as well. Any correlation between the DU and the DMV?
Please explain to us, without being an ignorant fool, why you believe
1. that conservatives advocate limiting the rights of people (give an example please)
2. that pharmacists should be forced to fill orders that violate their conscience or beliefs (do you also believe that doctors should be forced to perform abortions even if they recognize that it is the killing of an innocent human?)
3. that Dubya is limiting choice or freedom (this is one of the most ridiculous arguments made by liberals in decades since Dubya has done MORE to expand freedom and choice than any other president in the last dozen decades)
4. that anyone is making it easier for corporations to harm the environment.
Your biggest problem is that you paid money or at least gave up a couple of hours of valuable time that can never be regained to listen to the hateful and idiotic ranting of an embecile like Ms. Cho. Good luck with your studies. Please take some economics and business courses and try to take them from an instructor that understands free markets.
The kittens eat tofu?
OK, you're naive. No, you're ignorant, uninformed, or just plain stupid. Margaret Cho is hateful because she is a self-loathing hateful fool. If she is angry, it is because others don't react to her hateful schtick with sympathy but rather with disdain (as she deserves). If she thinks people "are so afraid of giving others equal rights" then she, like you, is delusional. It's so easy to say "you people want to deny others rights", but that doesn't make it a valid statement. The fact is, nobody is trying to deny anybody's rights, but idiots like Cho don't bother with facts.
Somebody has to run the wheel to keep it goin' that would be the smartest one there. So the du must've been down while it posted.
Wow, I think you're onto something! ROFL
Someday you will mature and never listen to fools like her.
Did it ever occur to you that the reason Cho gets hate mail is because she practices hate speech?
LOL! I think your post explained it best.
You made a wise choice in selecting that name. You've banned yourself by refusing to follow the rather limited rules from the outset.
If gays and minorities contribute to the workforce, pay their taxes, and want to enjoy the rights that other Americans (straight whites) do, why shouldn't they be allowed that?
What rights do NON "straight whites" lack that everyone else has? Blacks can't marry? That's NOT the reason for illegitimacy in the black community, if that's what you're thinking. In fact, they don't fit your cozy little racist sterotype, but black people can and do marry. A gay man can't marry? Last I checked he could, Michael Jackson for example. He can't marry another man? Guess what neither can I. Would you support my wish to marry my wife's sister in addition to my wife? Polygamy is a LOT more popular than gays wanting to get married, why don't you support that?
why it's okay for pharmacists to refuse contraceptives base on their own opinions
Why do liberals feel it's okay to force people to do things against their faith, so long as it's in lockstep with liberal dogma?
It doesn't make sense to me, how seemingly intelligent people are so adament about taking a step backward.
And you define forward as what, whatever liberal feel good orthodoxy says it is? When we throw away all that society is based on, we end up with another typical liberal train wreck - Nazi Germany, Mao's China, Stalin's Russia, Pol Pot's Cambodia. How many innocents do you need to murder before you realize your philosophy is not just deeply flawed and running counter to God and human nature, but downright evil.
You are right to ask questions, but somehow, I doubt you'll wait for the answers. Margaret Cho can give you all you'll need.
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
When you say "I'm a college student who has gotten into politics in the last few years" I think what you're actually saying is that you saw that stupid Michael Moore movie Farenhype 911.
BTW, your writing style is superrior to 94.2% of your DUmmie brethren.
Sorry, Norman...
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