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In reply to the discussion: Akin's apology should be publicly and stridently rejected. [View all]DirkGently
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I think this whole thing is so repellant that no one knows where to begin. Anti-abortion sentiment has passed as religion or moral objection for so long and has grown and become so much more poisonous and violent and insane without that it is finally coming to its full, grotesque bloom.
It's so bad it's difficult to even talk about it. The whole conservative movement is hateful game of Whack-a-Mole. We elect a black President, and they attack gay marriage. We end DADT and we get forced ultrasounds and increasingly vile language about aspirin between the knees and "legitimate rape." It's as though we have a fixed mass of brutality than we can only shift from one group to another.
I get so angry about this that I don't know where to begin. It should not be possible for us to be anywhere near this kind of bad