Stay classy, animal lovers
Wednesday October 24, 2007
Categories: Not the Onion
More bad people who make the world worse: Animal Liberation Front loonies begrudging a 10-year-old boy dying of cancer his last wish. He wanted to go on a bear hunt. He got to go on a bear hunt. He was...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Okay. We get it.
I'm a vegan, animal-loving hippy (by pretty much anyone's standard), and I find that post ridiculous and insane. I'd be disturbed too, if the poster was such an obviously kook.
Breaking news: Person Says Something Stupid and Offensive on Online Discussion Board!
What a sad little story. I'm going to eat some extra meat tomorrow just to spite those ALFers. See what you did?
Rod, have you read "Deer Hunting With Jesus" by Joe Bageant? It doesn't have much of anything to do with this post, but I've been looking for an appropriate time to recommend it to you and your readers.
Written from the standpoint of a liberal Democrat, it discusses (and rants about, funnily) how the Democratic party has lost white working- and lower-middle class voters. It's an interesting read I'd love to see discussed here.
"Breaking news: Person Says Something Stupid and Offensive on Online Discussion Board!"
Kyralessa, what you do here is not breaking news.
Sorry.
The double standard drives me crazy.
Can you imageine if, instead of a 10 year old hunting a bear, it was a 15 year old girl getting an abortion, or a Parkinson's patient receiving some experimental embryonic stem cell treatement, and pro-lifers were caught hoping that the victim's death was painful and only wishing that she had died before, rather than after, the deed was accomplished?
It would be front page news, splattered across every left blog about how lacking perspective pro-lifers are. We can never show anything but absolute compassion for those that procure abortions or seek embryonic stem cell treatements. Any failure of discipline will be punished.
But animal activists can dance on the grave of a 10 year old and suffer no apparent loss in credibility. Their kooks can be dismissed as internet freaks.
I don't know that it would be front page news if some poster on a discussion board said something really nasty about a young girl who had an abortion.
It doesn't matter if your on the far left or far right. With mainstream America, you have no credibility. You can't lose what you don't possess.
"It would be front page news, splattered across every left blog about how lacking perspective pro-lifers are. We can never show anything but absolute compassion for those that procure abortions or seek embryonic stem cell treatements. Any failure of discipline will be punished."
Absolutely absurd. Crazy things get said on Free Republic and pro-life extremists websites every day, and they don't end up on the front page. Heck, crazy things like that get said at NRO and by Michele Malkin on a daily basis, and they don't end up on the front page.
Hmmm -- take a look at what happened with conservative commentary on the Frost family. I don't think any conservatives wished for a more hasty death or additional suffering for anybody, yet they were still lambasted for "demonizing a family."
And I was in favor of S-CHIP.
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