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Politics : FREE AMERICA
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To: epicure who wrote (9347)7/22/2006 12:52:20 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (3) of 14758
 
I will be happy to denounce the views of anyone who seriously proposes blowing up the NYT, now that I see someone has made such a proposition. I'm sure the vast majority of conservatives share that opinion.

As for the hateful comments of leftwingers about the soldier who lost his family, I can tell you that many similar disparaging comments have been and are made here on SI about American soldiers (check SuePal's thread or the Foreign Affairs Discussion thread). Within just the past week, one liberal on the FADG thread posted to me that young people who volunteer for the military are "morons" who "couldn't hold down a minimum wage job".

Frankly, it does look to me like these type of hateful views are far more common on the left than on the right.

Furthermore, I think there is another difference between the two sets of extreme statements. Both sets of extreme statements are based on the raw emotion of anger.

I believe the emotion behind the extreme NYT statement is anger that the NYT has revealing (and thus making ineffective) secret programs that tracked terrorist financing and phone calls. A reasonable person can understand the reason for the anger even if the idea it engendered is wrong, illegal, and immoral.

The reason for the emotion behind the expressions of glee that a soldier's family had been murdered are a lot harder to understand.
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