Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Is "conservative hate speech" redundant?

I haunt a good number of message boards off and on.  I run across quite a few amusing statements.

Delilah Bach unloaded a doozy not long ago over the PolitiFact's FaceBook page:




I'll transcribe it just to make it easier for some folks to read:
"Thank you Politifact for banning Bob, he was really driving me crazy with the conservative point of view. There is no room for that type of speech on this page!


There are a few others that should be censored as well!"


"Bob" was a noisy fellow who posted from a conservative/right wing point of view.  Sometimes he made a good point.  Often he was unnecessarily confrontational.  "Bob" was banned for using a fake identity after rejoining the discussion when his previous fake identity was banned.

I'm a big advocate of favoring a charitable interpretation of an author's work.  Thus I assume that type of speech for which Delilah sees no room was the name calling cited by PolitiFact in a post that implicitly marked Bob's banning.

But if she simply meant that there was no room for the conservative point of view then I may be next!


Update:

Another commenter at FaceBook, Karen Street, pointed out that "Delilah Bach" appeared soon after "Bob" was banned, and supposed that the Bach identity was another incarnation of Bob.  A subsequent post by Bach helped firm the impression that the tone of her(?) posts is sarcastic, making it plausible if not probable that Bach is the new Bob.

The upshot is that Bach's comments should not be taken as in any way representative of the left, except via coincidental resemblance.

A pox on sock puppetry.

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