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Maeve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 11:15 AM
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It's not about 'demonizing a group based on the acts of a crazy person'
A phrase I've seen coming from RW defenders...it's about inciting the crazy people.

In the Frankenstein movies, Igor frightens the Monster who then breaks loose and goes on a rampage. Igor can't then say "Not my fault--I didn't know the chains would break!" But that is what the RW defenders are trying to say. (Ooo, there's a cartoon waiting to be drawn--a torch-carrying Igor Palin)
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 11:20 AM
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1. In "Van Helsing", Dracula asks Igor why he tortures the monster...
"It's what I do."

So appropriate.
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Trajan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 11:28 AM
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2. It's about using rhetoric with implicit calls to violence ...
We all know it when we see it, the 'Lock and Load', 'RELOAD!' memes that the haters like to employ ...

It's about grabbing your gun and shooting a goddamned Liberal .... Just like Palin meant .... Just like they all think, as far as I know ....

I have heard it from real people, all my life, and so have you ....

I hear it from my family ....


Using this rhetoric is incitement, and we already knew it was when we first heard it ... We had heard it before ...
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 11:39 AM
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3. Almost
Edited on Sun Jan-09-11 11:39 AM by baldguy
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