Remember the large US blogger I mentioned?
It was Michelle Malkin, by the way. To remind you, she said:
"When it comes to speaking and writing on unpleasant matters, I learned a long time ago to stop apologizing. It is a waste of my breath, time, and energy to precede every political discussion with "I'm not saying all [X] are [Y]." Or: "Of course, I don't hate all [Z] and please don't misunderstand me, blah, blah, blah." "
I thought that ironic, because obviously she doesn't extend that favour to her opponents.
But I found another example of this kind of statement on a left-blog. It's not so funny, and it's not so blatantly hypocritical, but it's all the more tragic. Jeanne of Body and Soul writes about the legitimization of torture in the US:
"[...]something profoundly evil happens to a country that's starts parsing who has the "right" to be treated as a human being. Once you take that first step, everything that happens subsequently is inevitable."
... apparently not noticing that she has just delivered a classical pro-life/anti-abortion argument.
Vårt Land recently wrote about how conservative evangelicals in the US begin to wake up to the reality of their government's complicity in torture.
Too bad I don't see them writing about passionate feminists waking up to that other horror.
Posted by vintermann at February 21, 2006 11:41 AM