popeye1250
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ORIGINAL: vincentML quote:
Vincent, since when do Americans have to be "nice" to Leftists/ Communists? How about Nazis,.. the KKK,..al qeada? And I wasn't trying to be "slanderous" I was making fun of them because it's so easy! Sorry to say I don't see anything amusing in your use of those terms. So, making fun is a stretch especially in a thread where the OP starts out with the shakey premise that only Libs can get away with being politically incorrect and claims they call all "true conservatives" racists, which is nonsense. I presume the OP, however silly his premise is, complains about the lack of civility on the P&R Board. So, to answer your question directly, it is not a question of when to be "nice" to anyone but when to be civil to someone's freedom to express an opinion even if they are "Leftists/Communists" hiding as you say under the blanket of Liberalism. The answer to that imo is all the time because Freedom of speech is what we are about. Additionally, I also find it kinda queasy that you see Leftist/Communists hiding under a blanket. That sounds so 1950s Joe McCarthy's "I have a list here of 200 State Department employees..." Or HUAC's "Are you now or have you ever been a member of ....?" I thought we were past all that nonsense and we were..... until it was revived in the 2008 presidential campaign. Seems like some see enemies hiding everywhere. Or they see people "who are not like us." Or people who are not "true Americans." All insinuating, suggesting some dark conspiracy. The old, worn out "enemies within" gambit has been taken out and dusted off. But really all quite slanderous and in an underhanded manner. Sorry that I can't be with you on this one, Popeye. Vincent, thankyou for your concern old bean. And I wouldn't be too concerned about the "Left's" ability to speak out. They're very adept at hiding out under *someone else's* blanket.
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