Excellent caption !! :^D
Posted on 08/30/2004 10:05:23 PM PDT by ChicagoHebrew
I enjoy this forum, but lately I've noticed a troubling tendency for posters here to descend into horrible and immature name-calling. Such name-calling, and extremism without reason does nothing but harm our cause. It turns off casual lurkers and readers of this forum. It provides fodder for this forum to be demonized and non-respected elsewhere. Below I provide a few examples. I call on Freepers to stop using such terms voluntarily. If that doesn't work, I call on the moderators to warn, if not censor, posters who use such terms. I realize that Democratic Underground uses even more ridiculous terms sometimes. However, your opponents' choice to frolack in waste does not provide an excuse to do likewise. Rather, it provides an opportunity to rise above, and show one's intellectual and moral superiority. Without more, I present a few examples of the type of garbage I'm talking about. I call on fellow posters to add their own.
1) "Hitlery" -- I dislike Hillary Clinton's politics, and what I know of her personality. However, nothing she has said or done (including her love-fest with Suha Arafat) justifies comparing her to one of the worst monsters in all history. Doing so not only demeans the Holocaust, and all the war dead of WWII, it makes a mockery of this forum to allow it to be posted.
2) "Demorat" -- This is just stupid. Calling your opponent a rodent does nothing to promote conservatism or libertarianism. It does everything to make posters and this forum look like intellectual infants, prone to tantrums and incapable of rational debate. We disagree with Democrats. We should not dehumanize them, or think them so below us that we need not engage them in debate and triumph.
3) "McInsane" & etc. -- John McCain is a conservative, loyal Republican. Indeed, in some areas -- such as controlling spending -- he's far more conservative then Bush. However, he is also a mavarick who doesn't tow the party line -- and, in my opinion, sometimes perhaps puts his principles below his desire to win applauds from the media. That being said, his ACU rating is strong, and he has put legitimate personal disagreements with Bush behind him to support what's best for his party -- and, more importantly -- his country. Feel free to critique McCain. Feel free to disagree with him when he criticizes fellow Republicans or takes an odd liberal stand. However, do not resort to petty name-calling -- especially not name calling that implies he lacks mental faculties, and/or is evil. It's just not right.
So I have written. I hope that a silent majority of Freepers agree with me here.
My, oh my, the nasty things they say about us.
Extremism in defense of liberty is NOOOOO vice!
Excellent caption !! :^D
You got that right, "THEY SURE ARE STUPID, THOSE STUPID RATS!
OK, how about Hill & Billary! Get over it!
That is SO funny, that I saved it!!
Aftere hearing some of them call into C-Span tonite, I would say they are total extremists beyond reasoning & scarey as HELL!
Perhaps you would be happier on another more sensitive forum that lives up to your lofty standards?
Oh YEAH, Old Crusty, I forgot that one. Think I like that one the best!!! Thanks!!!
Did you also know that "DU" is never to be spoken here at FR???????
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
-- Joseph Goebbels,
German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945
McCain and Feinstein authored a campaign-finance "law" which is an absolute affront to free speech and should be abolished. McCain is an opportunist, and no supporter of freedom.
Please recognize FR is a place where active conservatives find, exercise and perfect their voices, which happen to be loud and angry as often as not.
There is NO sense of respect for any Clinton or most democrats here -- nor is there likely to be.
I didn't read all the posts, funny as they were, but did anyone forget Bubba stating that he did't like being called "Slick Willy"?
They are, and I will be darned if I will be sensitive to their feelings! These people are scary as hell alright, and they HATE US!
The reason "Hitlery" is appropriate is that Ms. Clinton is a demogogue, with a following that could easily become as fanatical and as easily misled as was Hitler's.
It matters not that Clinton hasn't led a pogrom -- the important parallels are their shared ability to mobilize the masses, and their willingness to be dishonest and evil. Those are the things that warrant calling Clinton "Hitlery."
sorry Bro sometimes the truth is ugly ! sometimes that ugly sticks to the messenger! The Truth is like the sun it rises every morning , and is unconcerned what time you plan to wake up!
Chic,
I agree with you, but I must persist in calling the democrats "RATS," because they are most underhanded, lyingest, bunch of rascals I have ever seen.
Respectfully,
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