Reply #177

...failing to be critical means that they "want to deny all claims of torture." Which is amusing in itself, because not actively denying something means you're denying something.

It's as if you have to kick a dog when it's down. Do you think perhaps people aren't outspoken about it is because they feel guilty for supporting a President who does it? You want them to come groveling, no? They were wrong, everyone, they must admit to it at the alter of guilt!

Of course, GG and others go much further with it, they don't just say that lack of criticism equates support (which it doesn't), they go on and make absurd jokes that that if Obama supporters saw Obama raping a nun they would say it's educational! And indeed, the NDAA fiasco underscores that, because, instead of listening to what Obama supporters had to say, they tell them they're wrong, they tell them that they're supporting indefinite detention even though the people who support Obama do not, in fact, do that.

I can support a bigot running a marathon for breast cancer research, that doesn't mean that I support bigotry because during the marathon I'm not telling them to shove it and get lost and fuck off!