fm, that was a very good, thoughtful post. You made a slew of good points, but not one dissuaded me one iota from my prior comments. Moral Equivalence is one of the greatest evils, if not THE greatest evil, of the modern age. It is what enables the most hateful, vile and vicious people on the left to look at something good and call it evil, and look at something evil and (1) ignore it, (2) justify it or, (3) call it good.
I speak from experience. I have gone to the mat, a full nine rounds and then some, w people who are wedded to the concept of Moral Equivalence [as is Obama, btw]. These are nasty, hateful persons w a massive ax to grind. They hate the West, ‘western style Christianity’, traditional Western/Judeo-Christian values, etc. etc. Everything they say serves to justify anti-Christian values. No matter how horrifying an atrocity you point to as committed by Muslims or other third world or tribal people, they never condemn or even express concern over it. Invariably, the first word out of their mouth is to cite a mild Western ‘atrocity’ [usually it’s either a minor incident or else completely fabricated] and draw a moral equivalence. It is skin-crawling evil itself.
The same principle underlies the idea that FR = DU. The incidents cited in the post linked above [that FReepers didn’t sufficiently rejoice over Bin Laden’s death] are nothing—not even remotely close to being in the same ballpark—as the daily fare on DU. The pure hate, bile, vicious, lying, nakedly anti-anything/everything good about the West, Christianity, etc., that makes up the average DU day, would cause a normal conservative to want to vomit, then shower, then try to forget such indecency exists in the world, much less the USA. To equate the FR reaction to Bin Laden’s death w that cesspool of vile hateful nastiness/evil is not just OTT—it is pure, unadulterated Moral Equivalence. It disgusts me just to think about it.
Just typing this caused me to remember some of the purest, vilest garbage I have read on DU. Yuck; now I need a shower.
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