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In reply to the discussion: I've been gone a few days swamped at work and this is what I come back to? [View all]Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)32. I've seen the name around and chose not to click -- because of the name.
I can't decide if what you're saying disappointing, saddening, infuriating, disgusting, or -- I don't know. I feel like I just woke-up to find people who are pretending to be on my side are just using me and when I ask they show principled consistency they'll damn me as strongly as they'll damn the person they pretend to be damning on my behalf.
It's shallow, manipulative and disgusting. They are the real sexists. Dehumanizing users. My god, what a betrayal.
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I've been gone a few days swamped at work and this is what I come back to? [View all]
Nuclear Unicorn
Mar 2012
OP
I was pissed at Maher among other things for telling us Rush apologized, get over it.
roguevalley
Mar 2012
#14
maher is not guilty of only one crude on liner. and i agree, not comparable to limbaughs 3 day
seabeyond
Mar 2012
#5
i agree with all you say. that is the thing. if he had called her just a slut and prostitute, that
seabeyond
Mar 2012
#7
I disagree. The C word should never be used. It is objectively offensive and sexist. nt
Liquorice
Mar 2012
#23
I know how I feel when a man calls me a c. Clearly that's what I meant. It is
Liquorice
Mar 2012
#86
All you had to do was Google Bill Maher and anti-science. It's not hard, but here are some examples.
HuckleB
Mar 2012
#90
When Bill Maher can command the course of the Democratic party, then you'll have a point.
baldguy
Mar 2012
#17
You quoted me at length and still misinterpreted (or distorted) what I wrote
Nuclear Unicorn
Mar 2012
#41
People who enable sexism are not better than the sexists they make excuses for.
Nuclear Unicorn
Mar 2012
#53
Let the Rude Pundit call conservative women CUNTS though? You'll have dozens here defending him.
cherokeeprogressive
Mar 2012
#19
I've seen the name around and chose not to click -- because of the name.
Nuclear Unicorn
Mar 2012
#32
Allow me to sum up your critics: "Only RUSHBOT infiltrators protest sexist remarks from the Left!"
Zalatix
Mar 2012
#35
Well, so far the defense of false equivalency is so shallow as to be laughable
Nuclear Unicorn
Mar 2012
#49
so, all the years i have criticized and called out the mahers, sterns, flints,
seabeyond
Mar 2012
#66
i agree with that, too. another thing, a continual statement that either moore or maher
seabeyond
Mar 2012
#76
I get what you're saying and agree - not sure if the comparison works this time though
TBF
Mar 2012
#37
the paragraph is perfect. it isnt about being comparable. it is about being consistent. nt
seabeyond
Mar 2012
#42
Not boycotting someone is NOT giving him a pass. There IS something inbetween.
Honeycombe8
Mar 2012
#44
that is where so much is going wrong in the discussion. limbaugh and maher are not the same.
seabeyond
Mar 2012
#57
Has anyone in this forum boycotted the anti-semitic, domestic abuser, vile language Mel Gibson?
Honeycombe8
Mar 2012
#47
I dunno. If Rush was a doctrinaire liberal would he have been as strongly condemned?
Nuclear Unicorn
Mar 2012
#55
i do get heartened seeing the number of people that have their line of appropriate
seabeyond
Mar 2012
#70