Who Is Promoting Violence?

www.nypress.com ^ | Aug. 28, 2002 | Michaelangello Signorelli

[lonnie]

What is it with leftists...have they all lost their sense of humor?

[Brian Mosely]

I don't know about humor, but I've noticed that more and more left leaning writers are mining this website for "hateful right wing commentary." (Note the Alterman blog from yesterday) This place is now on their radar screen, that's for sure.

[o_zarkman44]

Perhaps we need some sensitivity training? Naw, they have earned our disgust by attempting to force their ideals on the innocence of our children. Using laws to hide behind the discord the liberals incite while imposing "lifestyle" and "diversity" on people will most certainly invoke negative emotions.

Since emotion is human nature, attempting to regulate predictable and perfectly natural responses of negativity toward unnatural acts and ideas will always occur and there is nothing short of brainwashing that will change that. Thats why the liberal agenda is trying to indoctrinate lifestyle into our children. That in itsself invokes malice and repudiation. Why? Because they are messing with our children. And if one of the proponents should succumb, then we should rejoice.

[Steve_Seattle]

"the left are finally matching the right in hitting hard and where it hurts"

This undermines the author's previous comment that irrational and hateful blather emanates from "left, right, and center" on the Internet. Going back to my college days, where I mingled with the Left for several years, I have known that the Left's claim to be the voice of moderation and gentleness is absolute rubbish.

[Steve_Seattle]

humor

If you want a clue as to the relative degree of humor on the political Right and Left, compare the National Review with The Nation. The National Review devotes two pages to cartoons every issue, with other cartoons and comical illustrations sprinkled throughout the magazine. Also, the cover charicatures are often hilarious. The Nation, however, is as grim as Moscow on a rainy day in February, with nary a cartoon to be found.

[Billthedrill]

The only good liberal is a dead liberal!

Now that's over the top. There's a good deal to be said for maiming...

[inquest]

So let me get this straight: It takes brainwashing to show some class?

You can go on and on all day about how the Left is just as bad if not worse than FR, but that's just not how most people throughout the country are going to see it. If we keep giving our opponents enough rope to hang us with, it's just going to keep turning more and more people away. It may be plenty emotionally satisfying to act like a bunch of monkeys, but we're not going to be able to take this country back unless we start convincing people that the Left is foolish. And we're not going to be convincing anybody of anything if they're not going to have any desire whatsoever to listen.

[smoothsailing]

Ann is bringing them to justice one lefty at a time.

Keep your powder dry Ann, there are plenty of loonies on the liberal pond.

[Steve_Seattle]

"if we keep giving our opponents rope to hang us with"

That's my problem with Ann Coulter lately - she's gotten lazy and sloppy and as a result her opponents can get her painted into a corner on side issues. When she sticks to the facts, she can still be good, but she increasingly relies on zingers and broad generalizations that are easy to poke apart.

[TopQuark]

What is it with leftists...have they all lost their sense of humor?

There is noting humorous about loosing one's humanity, civility, and what is sacred. Conservatism does not mean to preserve only the Constitution but the "basic goodness of American people" as well.

For millennia people refrained from even speaking badly about the deceased. And now, someone is on the floor laughing?

The editor was our ideological opponent. To laugh at his death is a blasphemy. Shame on the person who posted that; shame on you for not knowing the difference between a joke and blasphemy; and shame on all of us for not upholding higher standards of civility and decorum on this board.

[TopQuark]

Perhaps we need some sensitivity training?

Of course not. But a great deal of good manners and the sence of sacred are much needed. But when the parents fail to do that, there is nothing much anyone can do, isn't it?

[dbehsman]

I love a woman who has good taste in air rifles!

[rdb3]

...have they all lost their sense of humor?

Did the left ever have one?

[o_zarkman44]

The liberals won't listen or debate even if you have proof on video, photo, audio so why worry? If it takes personal attacks to get them to listen and respond, so be it. They have used the same tactic effectively for years without shame. If conservatives fold up like wussies every time they are attacked, the liberals win. I have seen too much of this and it makes me sick that people are too weak to stand up and say what needs to be said in defense of our rights. I for one refuse to lay down.

The truth is all that matters, not sensitivity, not political correctness, not diversity training. This is a fight for the very foundation of our freedoms and there can not be any more delay. Either we are going to be pro-active for our rights and the rights of future generations, or we will be reactive when we discover the rights have been lost forever. And we succumb with our heads low in shame for not doing or saying everything we could while we had a chance.

[RabidBartender]

"but I've noticed that more and more left leaning writers are mining this website for "hateful right wing commentary."

And what they are seeing is folks defending cop-killers, chicken-littles warning that the end of all freedom starts next week, and pro-druggies. Is it any wonder those like the junior Senator from New York and the author of this article have little problem painting all conservatives as fringe idiots?

[dinasour]

Soon enough, on the conservative website FreeRepublic.com, where Coulter’s minions congregate

Dear Ann,

Can I be your minion.

Love, dinasour

[inquest]

You need to listen to yourself. How does cheering the death of a newspaper editor promote the defense of our rights? This has nothing to do with standing up for ourselves, nothing to do with being "pro-active" about anything, and sure as hell nothing to do with spreading the truth. It has everything to do with making total jackasses of ourselves to the general population.

You're right: The truth is all that matters - not boorishness, not scoring cheap shots, not seeing who has the better schoolyard taunt.

[inquest]

And what they are seeing is folks defending cop-killers, chicken-littles warning that the end of all freedom starts next week, and pro-druggies.

I think the problem posed by those people is over-exaggerated, since they end up getting flamed or at least disavowed by the majority almost every time they post. The tribal hooligans around here are a much bigger problem.

[o_zarkman44]

I was not cheering anyones death. I was responding to accusatory language from a published article which focuses the blame of his death on homophobia, primarily because the New York Times was taking announcements for same sex unions. There within is the outrage. I know nothing about the editor who died. If he so happened to be homo, I would have never known the difference unless someone made a point to announce it like it really mattered to anyone. Except to shove something down the throats of people who gag at the thought of being taunted in the name of rights, while being violated with the storefront agenda of gays.

[inquest]

I think I'm beginning to see where you're coming from now. But if you're referring to the article of this thread, it didn't attempt to blame his death on homophobia or anything else. The only reference it made to homophobia had to do with the comments that Freepers allegedly made after his death.