Will anyone on DU henceforth complain when conservatives dance on the grave of a left-winger?

[scarletwoman]

38. Morality has not one damn thing to do with it.

Common courtesy dicates that one does not speak ill of the dead around their family and friends. It's not a matter of "morality" or "immorality" - the dead are beyond injury.

However, when it's a public figure - unless you are personally acquainted with the mourners and ensconced among them - your guiding principle ought to be speaking the TRUTH. If the truth is that the deceased public figure wreaked havoc and acted as a destructive force in the world, then it is your duty as a human being to speak the truth about them, lest the sycophants and plutocrats and media whores snatch up the entire narrative and gloss over the evil that was done to your fellow human beings.

Speak the truth, make a noise, do not be silent! Raise a glass and make your celebration loud and public! Let the powers that be know that YOU are not deceived by the praises of those who would consign you to silence and impotence. To grave dance for such a one as Thatcher is an act of pure dissent - you are putting the powerful on notice that you have not been fooled, that you do not acquiesce to their version of reality.

As for the right wing, they lie as a matter of course. They lie about the living, they lie about the dead. If they celebrate the death of one of our own - we STILL know the truth, and the TRUTH is what we must always defend.

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