A threat to the 1%? Are the attacks on the Pope Coordinated?

[JoeyT]

19. Yeah, we hate him because we're totally fighting for the 1% and we're totally right wing plants.

Or you know, we could just loathe bigots. In particular we could be highly annoyed that someone that isn't fond of gays or women is being lauded as a saint by alleged progressives. It's like a bizarro world Third Way, only instead of being socially liberal and economically conservative, it's economically liberal and socially conservative. I'm not even sure what that's called.

What I see is a coordinated effort by a bunch of people to refuse to refute facts, and instead to try to shift the discussion and label the people that are against bigotry as bigots. It's like a phalanx of Bill O'Reilly clones that charge courageously into babble whenever anyone brings up the fact that the pope is still socially regressive. And that he's the head of an organization that's still protecting pedophiles.

I wasn't willing to let the LGBT thing go with Obama, and I didn't vote for the pope.

Y'all can defend the goddamned Klan for all I care, but you won't make me stop speaking the truth about them, no matter what how broadly you define the word "hate". Which apparently now includes speaking the truth about a person or organization.

I'm glad we've come to this: The point people are openly making "GHEYZ AND WIMMENZ CAN SHUT UP NOW!!!" OPs. At least that rips the veil off the people that were trying to hedge with "Well, we can support him but disagree with his ideas about LGBT people and women." arguments. We're done hedging now, it seems. Now we're down to browbeating anyone that thinks the rights of about 60% or more of the population are important.