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Jan. 8th, 2011 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanI had wanted to come home and do a post about the opera I saw this afternoon. Instead, I am going to cuddle the CutePuppy, drink a glass of wine, & think kind, gentle, healing thoughts. Can't hurt, right?
EtA: this may be nothing politically-motivated. I find that damned unlikely, considering the threats against the Congresswoman previously, but possible. However, that does not mean we should give a free pass to the culture of violent hate espoused by national (and mainstream) political figures.
Reports are that the "target" map on the Palin website has been taken down, and her Twitter account shut down. I hope to HELL she and others of her ilk start to realize that if just as when you preach understanding and compassion, you spread that, if you call for violence and hatred... this is what you get.
Other folk have said that they don't want to hold Palin responsibile, that freedom of speech gives her the right to say whatever she wants. I agree that she has the legal right to say anything within the bounds of Freedom of Speech... but that does not absolve anyone from responsibility for those words, between them and the 3am reckoning of what they may have encouraged someone else to do.
(and yes, I consider that in my own words and writings. I have to. Fiction explores the darkness within us, but I have no desire to encourage it to grow.)
EtA2: Me: "the right to bear arms IN A WELL-REGULATED MILITIA." Okay? Can we remember that? Not the right to perform personal revenge fantasies with a goddamned automatic rifle!" My dad: "Feel better now? Me: "no!"
EtA: this may be nothing politically-motivated. I find that damned unlikely, considering the threats against the Congresswoman previously, but possible. However, that does not mean we should give a free pass to the culture of violent hate espoused by national (and mainstream) political figures.
Reports are that the "target" map on the Palin website has been taken down, and her Twitter account shut down. I hope to HELL she and others of her ilk start to realize that if just as when you preach understanding and compassion, you spread that, if you call for violence and hatred... this is what you get.
Other folk have said that they don't want to hold Palin responsibile, that freedom of speech gives her the right to say whatever she wants. I agree that she has the legal right to say anything within the bounds of Freedom of Speech... but that does not absolve anyone from responsibility for those words, between them and the 3am reckoning of what they may have encouraged someone else to do.
(and yes, I consider that in my own words and writings. I have to. Fiction explores the darkness within us, but I have no desire to encourage it to grow.)
EtA2: Me: "the right to bear arms IN A WELL-REGULATED MILITIA." Okay? Can we remember that? Not the right to perform personal revenge fantasies with a goddamned automatic rifle!" My dad: "Feel better now? Me: "no!"
