Sometimes the shoe fits, though -- at least insofar as a particular post or thread is concerned. FReepers ought to be self-policing, and other FReepers ought to call out folks whose behavior is beyond the pale. It's the only way FR can avoid having the "hate site" label stick.
FWIW, I never call anybody a nazi ... but I do point out that sometimes FReepers will say or suggest something that sounds like something a nazi would say or do.
For example, many of our resident keyboard kommandos are prone to suggesting that we wipe out entire Iraqi villages in reprisal, whenever American troops are killed by terrorists. It's simply true that that is the sort of behavior for which the nazis and Soviets were infamous, and it's worthwhile pointing that out to FReepers who suggest it.
Then again, there are numerous threads about heinous crimes where some FReepers figuratively nod grimly and knowingly when it turns out the perp is a black guy ... and sometimes one gets the feeling that they think it's the fellow's color that caused the crime. Would an outsider be justified in wondering whether such posts are made by a KKKer?
I can't recall ever seeing anybody accusing somebody of being a "brown-shirt thug." There is, however, that class of FReepers who are prone to disparaging police officers as Jack Boot Thugs, and the like. That particular crowd is nuts, IMO -- but they can make FR look pretty bad.
sometimes FReepers will say or suggest something that sounds like something a nazi would say or do.
It's simply true that that is the sort of behavior for which the nazis and Soviets were infamous
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I have to say that I am surprised at the above. It is more representative of the kind of thing the MSM would say about FR, rather than what a member of FR would say.
Like the threads where rioting "youths" burning cars are discussed...
...or the threads where a crooked politician either does not have his party affiliation mentioned at all (or is mentioned half a dozen times in the opening paragraph...)
You have it exactly backwards. That reaction is in response to the liberal position that the high crime and murder rate in urban areas is due to lack of gun control, underfunded schools, not enough midnight basketball, lack of jobs, Bush's tax cuts - anything but urban thug culture. And those who stray from the liberal plantation in that regard and who dare to speak the truth, such as Juan Williams, are treated as Uncle Toms.
Talk about hateful.
Good grief. You’re beginning to sound like O’Reilly. Look, if FR is not your cup of tea, if you can’t stand conservatives speaking their mind, if you’re so concerned that we’re pissing off the libs, if you feel we should bow down and kiss their asses, you are no FReeper. Please leave.
I’m not sure which website you’re reading from, but I have never read anything along those lines. Nor have I ever known a freeper to talk like that.