Overall, the left is more hateful than the right

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Why do some (not all or even most) liberals so frequently accuse the right of being hateful and racist when the most severe and pervasive hatred and racism in American is produced by the left? I know some people here will disagree with me that the left tends to be more hateful than the right. I challenge those people to provide the five worst examples of hateful and/or racist speech from a prominent conservative or conservative politician within the last 20 years. Then I'm confident that I can provide five examples of hateful and/or racist speech from a prominent liberal or liberal politician that are much worse. I'm not trying to make people angry, I just really want to have this debate to see if maybe I am missing something in my assessment of the situation.

Err, just in the last two MONTHS:
* US right threw a tantrum that shut down all social services for a while and caused deaths.

* US right became supportive of a bigot's "rights" to openly spread hate against black people, homosexual people and women without any repercussion.

* US right called for a black woman to be fired for letting a panelist in her TV show make a mild joke about Mitt Rommey.

The US left has hate, prejudice and racism issues, that's for sure. But the US right is absolute scum. Its whole platform is utter hatred. There is no comparison between them. And to claim that the left is "more hateful" is a laughable attempt at a false equivalence that should only be welcomed with ridicule and suspicion - I mean really, why would you be interested in defending such an awful group of people?

I've always wondered how an ACLU lawyer can keep from puking when they represent some far right group like the klan.I guess protecting people's rights (no matter how vile the beliefs are)gives you a very strong stomach.
NAMBLA,you have got to be kidding Moviefan2k4,How can you even make those comparisons.
A group of child molesting scum and religious nut jobs,and you compare them to the ACLU and GLAAD?

Yeah. That comparison is some of the hateful stuff we've been talking about.

Your entire post was sarcastic right?

Yes, however, it is close to what one hears coming from the left.

* US right threw a tantrum that shut down all social services for a while and caused deaths.

* US right became supportive of a bigot's "rights" to openly spread hate against black people, homosexual people and women without any repercussion.

* US right called for a black woman to be fired for letting a panelist in her TV show make a mild joke about Mitt Rommey.

The US left has hate, prejudice and racism issues, that's for sure. But the US right is absolute scum. Its whole platform is utter hatred.

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There is no comparison between them.

And to claim that the left is "more hateful" is a laughable attempt at a false equivalence that should only be welcomed with ridicule and suspicion - I mean really, why would you be interested in defending such an awful group of people?

I've always wondered how an ACLU lawyer can keep from puking when they represent some far right group like the klan.I guess protecting people's rights (no matter how vile the beliefs are)gives you a very strong stomach.

The US left has hate, prejudice and racism issues, that's for sure. But the US right is absolute scum. Its whole platform is utter hatred. There is no comparison between them. And to claim that the left is "more hateful" is a laughable attempt at a false equivalence that should only be welcomed with ridicule and suspicion - I mean really, why would you be interested in defending such an awful group of people?

Ah, so now GLAAD and ACLU = Westboro and NAMBLA.

Read what I wrote again; I placed NAMBLA on the left with the ACLU and GLAAD. The Westboro Baptists claim to represent Christ, but their actions prove otherwise. Pardon my language, but as much as I despise homosexuality, I would never carry a sign at a soldier's funeral saying "God hates fags", or tell the grieving parents of that person their child's in hell as they weep. One thing, and one alone, sends people to hell: their own choice to reject Jesus Christ. Homosexuality is a sin, to be sure...but so are lying, murder, theft, adultery, rape, fornication, abuse, slander, etc. All of them are manifestations of the same core problem: we often want our own way more than God's.

Ah, so now GLAAD and ACLU = Westboro and NAMBLA.

Read what I wrote again; I placed NAMBLA on the left with the ACLU and GLAAD. The Westboro Baptists claim to represent Christ, but their actions prove otherwise. Pardon my language, but as much as I despise homosexuality, I would never carry a sign at a soldier's funeral saying "God hates fags", or tell the grieving parents of that person their child's in hell as they weep. One thing, and one alone, sends people to hell: their own choice to reject Jesus Christ. Homosexuality is a sin, to be sure...but so are lying, murder, theft, adultery, rape, fornication, abuse, slander, etc. All of them are manifestations of the same core problem: we often want our own way more than God's.

I hardly think MBLA holds any political sway over the left - after all, who wants to be associated with pedophiles? - so the attempt to connect them with the left is absurd. And to do so is an attempt of the right to connect child molesters to gays.

First, there is no such thing as "free will."

Second, even if there was, the "choice" to reject "Jesus Christ" is understandable because of God's many flaws. If God were a human being we would think "he" was irrational, crazy, and a heartless sociopath.

If homosexuality is a sin, then God is the sinner because God made humans.

If God gets upset with people for choices they make in the bedroom (as if God didn't have anything better to do--there's people starving you know) then God should have made people to not be that way.

The whole religion thing is ridiculous.