Will anyone on DU henceforth complain when conservatives dance on the grave of a left-winger? [View all]

[Donald Ian Rankin]

Whether or not grave dancing is immoral is a reasonable debate to have. My view is that it probably is, but the arguments to the contrary do not strike me as devoid of merit.

But either it is or it isn't. In the past, when conservatives have indulged in it on the death of a liberal, the overwhelming consensus has been that it is; now when it's a conservative who has died the consensus is clearly that it isn't.

"Gravedancing is OK" and "gravedancing is not OK" are both defensible positions, but "gravedancing is OK when it's me doing it, but not when it's someone I disagree with" is hypocrisy of the rankest and most contemptible sort.

If you want to be able to speak out next time a conservative says something disgusting on the event of the death of a liberal, wait for a space before using your favourite zinger about baroness Thatcher. After all, you had decades when she was alive; if it wasn't urgent then then it will wait a little now without spoiling.

Yes, she was a bad prime minister. There's no call to pretend that that was not the case. But don't get more gleeful than that for a while, *unless* you think it's OK for people to dance on the graves of people you admire too - in which case, zing away. But, by past form, not many people on DU do think that.