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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
Oh, please. Hank said "I don't mean to excuse the Palin/TeaParty targets, just to suggest that at least parts of both sides that might be behaving badly." Everything in that statement, and everything about what Hank has been posting on this board for years, indicated that he was trying to equate "both sides."
If you had just shown up today and never read a Hank post before, your naivete would be cute. But be real.
The rhetoric on the left and the right have not been anywhere near the same. Once again -- ad nauseum, since that's the only way to talk about anything hank-related -- we are not talking about anonymous (or, more accurately, imaginary) people sporting mean bumper-stickers or posting stuff on the Internet that has since mysteriously vanished. We are talking about party leaders. About elected officials. About key "thought" leaders. About icons of the right wing movement.
If Hank wants to acknowledge the fundamental difference, he should. But he won't, and your belief that he really understands it is, to say the least, misguided.
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Ban violent metaphors. That is the only solution.
Oh... We can't? Well, then I'll guess we'll just have to do what we're doing: Discuss whether the Right goes too far with violent imagery, while it continues to use such imagery.
This debate goes nowhere.
