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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat Sarah Palin's Latest Meltdown Tells Us About Conservatives' Victimization Fantasies
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/what-sarah-palins-latest-meltdown-tells-us-about-conservatives-victimizationThe year is a week old and already we have a contender for the dumbest culture war moment of 2015: Sarah Palin having one of her many paranoid meltdowns, this time over a stupid photo of her son standing on a dog, which she posted on her Facebook page with a suggestion that the moment was cute and admirable. When the inevitable criticism came, she freaked out and tried to turn the whole thing into a morality play about the supposed oppression of conservative Americans that has been the theme of her entire career. In fact, its the central claim of the entire right-wing movement, and the engine that keeps the money flowing both to politicians and to right-wing con artists like Palin, who make a living by lying to conservatives about how theyre under attack.
Many people were understandably put off by the photograph, which confirmed a lot of suspicions that Palin cant be bothered to teach her children the basics, like respect for animals. But she zeroed in on PETA, because it was another opportunity for her to peddle a paranoid rant about how conservatives are under attack. Did you go as crazy when your heroic Man-of-Your-Lifetime, Barack Obama, revealed he actually enjoyed eating dead dog meat? she whined.
The implication of the rant was obvious: That liberal concern for animal welfare is not sincere, but merely a cover for the real motivation, which is attacking conservatives because of our hateful hearts. Never mind that PETA is not really a mainstream liberal organization, but is in fact routinely criticized by actual liberals all the time for siphoning money away from organizations that actually protect animals. And never mind that PETA does not actually worship Obama but instead has issued silly denunciations of him for that one time he killed a fly on camera. And never mind that the Palins have held themselves out as the arbiters of responsible parenting, which is all called into question by clear evidence that they, in reality, indulge childish misbehavior instead of teaching responsibility.
The narrative is that conservatives are under attack from liberals for no other reason than pure liberal evil, so the facts must be bent to suit that narrative.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,776 posts)How anyone can stand to listen to that screech of a voice is beyond me. But the RW drones apparently find it music to their ears.
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Whining hypocrites. Worse than any incorrigible child. They deserve to be tortured.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,776 posts)Well, OK, maybe just this once.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)a sort of mushy menger sponge.
It's the only explanation for the increasingly disjointed grunt-like incoherent attempts at conversation, really only intelligible on the most basic language level.
I suspect the same thing has happened to Ann Coulter, but with meth.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,776 posts)way her one who would become more coherent over time. And, she does look to be even more batshit than in those days, too, as well. You betcha.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)That's just a holy fucking shit thought, innit.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,776 posts)The Wizard
(12,556 posts)professional victims.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)They grow up hearing how Jesus was tortured, whipped, and crucified for our sins. As little children they hear heroic stories of saints fed to the lions. Stories of other saints beheaded, murdered, and persecuted in other various ways. They are told that they too must be willing to be persecuted for their Christian beliefs to be real Christians. But are they taught the virtues of feeding the poor, healing the sick, and loving their neighbors in peace and tolerance?
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)The Fundamentalist would usually interpret this to mean that if one is not being persecuted - one is not really saved. Thus one has to know that they are being persecuted in order to know that their salvation is assured.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)I'm a mahayana Buddhist. We don't want anyone to suffer. We don't even want animals to suffer. We want all sentient beings to be happy.
treestar
(82,383 posts)to claim they are being persecuted.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Dunning and Kruger proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will:
1.fail to recognize their own lack of skill;
2.fail to recognize genuine skill in others;
3.fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy;
They should start showing a picture of Sara here.
Takket
(21,715 posts)EEO
(1,620 posts)Response to xchrom (Original post)
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nichomachus
(12,754 posts)Little kids do that sort of thing all the time.
BUT -- it's a teaching moment where you tell the kid that it's not good for the dog, it could hurt the dog, and he shouldn't do it again.
You don't take a freaking picture of it and put it on Facebook thinking it's cute.