Did you read the headline? That's an indictment of the whole of Free Republic. And that is wrong.
Yes. I did read the headline. And if we don’t combat this ourselves we will LET ourselves be indicted because we allow THEM to set the rules.
And that is wrong.
I am NOT arguing AGAINST Freedom of Speech.
I am NOT arguing FOR political correctness.
I am NOT saying we should allow others especially liberals, to define our vocabulary and lexicon.
But I AM saying that we know right from wrong, and shouldn’t allow something to pass that is OBVIOUSLY wrong. I think I saw those posts the other day that were referenced, and was in a hurry so I let it pass. That is MY issue to deal with.
But I say we must leave it to Liberals to use the moral relativism defense. They think that having someone defecate on a burning American flag is okay because it is freedom of speech.
As conservatives, we can opine that it is not okay to defecate on a burning American flag, but that it IS freedom of speech.
We can make the distinction that simply because something is protected under the law does not make it RIGHT. Liberals either cannot, or will concede or maintain that only when it is politically advantageous to do so.
And so it is with the comments we occasionally see in this forum. They may be protected free speech, but they are not right, and it is up to us as patrons and participants of this site to set the tone.