A sewer
Ew.
Slightly afraid and slightly queasy in advance, I hunted up Glenn Beck’s website called “the Blaze” and looked for something on Frances Fox Piven.
Ew.
And people think violent rhetoric might be a problem…I can’t imagine why, can you?
Tip Jar
All the comments are about how liberals can’t think for themselves and can’t recognize the truth. I laughed at first, but the absurdity is really scary more than anything else. All it takes is a little old lady to mention labor unions and strikes and transformation and revolution and change and that gets twisted into a call for violent overthrow. I know revolution is typically associated with violence, but making a headline about her explicit call for violence is taking it too far.
Reading the level of stupid on that website makes me terrified.
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More on Glenn Beck – a whole load of Rabbis have finally got gatvol of the asshole trivialising one of the great tragedies to hit the Jews.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/article876133.ece/Rabbis-protest-Fox-host-rsquo-s-Nazi-imagery
Reading the comments doesn’t terrify me, it wearies me.
There is no thought, there is no analysis, there is only regurgitation. Yes, I am concerned that Piven may be targeted, but I do find it unlikely that anything will happen to her. Beck will move on to something else as soon as he is done beating this dead horse. I am sure that he will soon find out about the Rosenbergs and rail on them as being the reason that the left is so powerful against the forces of Mormon/Christian/Founder-Fetish conspiracists.
The stupid, it hurts!
seriously, how on earth can people be like, how can they not see that what they are writing is warped?
The Glenn Beck stuff is wearisome (and worrisome), but I’m still undecided about how dangerous it is. At least Giffords’ shooting was unanimously (at least in public) condemned.
Elsewhere (OT ?), women “deserve” to die:
“Anyone who knows about Islam knows that stoning is in the Koran, and that it is Islamic law. There are people who call it inhuman – but in doing so they insult the Prophet. They want to bring foreign thinking to this country.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12292917
Can we not call Piven a little old lady? She’s old, yes, but that doesn’t make her either little or a lady. Is Gore Vidal (say) a little old gentleman? No. Neither is Piven a little old lady.
Jeezis. Thanks, Alain. (Not OT at all.)
Is Gore Vidal (say) a little old gentleman?
Well, does geezer count?
:p
Perhaps this is my ignorance and prejudice, but I can’t remember any females encouraging violent revolution in history, at least not prior to Palin. My point in examining the source, was to subtly point the reader to the conclusion that Piven probably wasn’t calling for violence.
Geezer is different!
Miles, hmm, well there have been plenty of women encouraging violent revolution and violent other things, but in any case the subtlety is rather too subtle, given the ease with which people collapse into automatic contempt-words whenever disagreeing with a woman.
In that case, let me stress that dismissal was not my intention and offer my apologies.
That’s all right! I knew it wasn’t. I was just giving a little reminder. No worries.
Really nasty
I think such outpourings would probably be illegal here, as in “An incitement to commit GBH/murder”
“Anyone who knows about Islam knows that stoning is in the Koran, and that it is Islamic law. There are people who call it inhuman – but in doing so they insult the Prophet. They want to bring foreign thinking to this country.”
Of course stoning is not mentioned in the koran at all. It comes from the hadith, fourteen hundred years of interpretation and re-interpretation of things that mo might, or might not, have said. It’s a small point to be sure. but one that indicates how little these barbarian fanatics actually know about their “faith”.