ALWAYS The Victim.

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15. this sounds like projection

that you are offended because they are playing the victim whereas it is WE who are the real victims. Victims of their "oppression" and "hate speech".

We, on the left, seem to have a strategy of "look for the offensive". That whenever one of our "enemies" speaks, sift over it with a fine tooth comb looking for something offensive. Then wave it around and cast aspersions and call for retribution.

What, for example, was so offensive about what Sarah Palin said? She said that "being deeply in debt is like slavery".

First, how is that not true? And second, even if it isn't true, how is it so offensive? Third, Palin was not "criticized" or "corrected" by Bashir. She was called a bunch of names and then he suggested somebody should defecate in her mouth.

There's a qualitative difference between telling somebody "you should not have said that" or "you were wrong to say that" and "you are a complete moron and really bad things should happen to you".

That's crossing the line into hate speech, and yes, when people publicly say hateful things about you, then you are, at least a little bit - a victim.