Reply #245: why are we surprised that bad people do bad things?

[pitohui]

you are telling us not to use racial or gender slurs, but why tell us? the bad guys will attack any point of perceived weakness, and they honestly believe that women are inferior and weak, hence, they attack us in those terms -- it is no use telling DUers to "just stop it," the people making these attacks are not true DUers or true progressives, they are evil, insane, or have a financial motive in these attacks and they don't give a rip for our ideas about common courtesy

the world is as it is, bad guys do bad things, they don't hesitate to shoot (martin luther king) or bomb (judy bari) activists who are saying unpopular things, why on earth would you expect them to hesitate to badmouth good people?

they fight full on without hesitation, fear, or regret, while we sit back and agonize about calling an evil bitch like ann coulter an evil bitch, and we wonder why we're losing?

we need to toughen up and get real, the bad guys will ALWAYS use name-calling as long as it gets results, talk is cheap, cheaper than a bullet, cheaper than a bomb, sure they'll use that first -- if we're afraid to even talk back to them, it's fairly pathetic, isn't it?

i don't really believe sheehan quit because she was called bad names by disrupters on DU, i believe she quit for the reasons she said (america cares more about american idol than about her son and the other dead soldiers) and also because she appears to have significant health issues, physical issues obviously and possibly also some depression as a result of her great grief

everybody in public life gets called names, we call chimpy names (isn't chimpy rather hateful when you stop and think about it), this is human nature, to be in public life means that you need to shrug off the stupid-ass name-calling

it's ugly, it's scary, but it's the least of our worries, drummed-up accusations (look at the clintons and the endless investigations) and actual violent attacks on our leaders/activists are the greater worry in my view, there are too damn many martyrs on the left for my taste

we can't fall apart about being called a name or being attacked with a verbal slur, we just can't, because if that's all that it takes to stop us, it's useless

if your friend dropped out of public life because a neo-nazi said she lubricates, well, that's fairly pathetic, isn't it?