is it wrong to call the right wing a cancer

[patrick t. cakes]

on society?


on edit,

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[Skittles]

1. no

[abq e streeter]

2. It's only wrong for them to be one

[Richard Steele]

3. No. It's an apt description. A purposeless mass that GROWS for no reason but to grow....

..even when its pointless growth will ultimately
KILL the being that it is an organ of?

Yeah, that's a simple description of CANCER.

That's the Right Wing, and that's the lump on my CAT scan.
If our society is a living thing, they are a cancer upon it.

[Initech]

4. No, but I believe Fox News is a virus.

[Ken Burch]

5. It's kind of insulting...to tumors...

n/t.

[Forkboy]

6. I have it and it doesn't offend me.

Though I would extend it to the entire human race, nihilist that I am. :)

[Lint Head]

7. Cancer is cancer. Show me a cancer on America and I'll

show you a right winger.

[snagglepuss]

8. Why would using a metaphor be wrong, especially an apt metaphor?

The aptness of the metaphor is striking. I only wish repukes used metaphors rather than incite violence.

[patrick t. cakes]

10. I feel its apt yet dehumanizing, but

where else is there to go. its a failed ideology based on fear, hate, and death.
I'm truly seeing these people differently and i don't know where that's leading me
to tell the truth.

[snagglepuss]

13. Describing people as cancer is dehumanizing however describing RW

neo-con ideology as a cancer isn't.

Earlier I read a OP about Glenn Beck targeting an 80 yr old sociology professor and blaming her for the state of the economy, as a result she has rec'd death threats. That itself is shocking, preposterous and disgusting but other vile remarks he made were numbing. I've never cared to listen to Beck, I knew he was an ignorant and dangerous but wasn't prepared to read his rants so I understand your comment about seeing them differently.

[patrick t. cakes]

9. I'm just tired of this, and these people are never

going away. they're the death of this country, culture etc..

[cynatnite]

11. We call each other names all the time...what's one more?

I just don't care.

[underseasurveyor]

12. Cancer...... a disease

Right wing, Republican, teabagger..... a dis-ease.
Both spread into healthy vital parts.
Both are deadly if left untreated.

Yup....
Cancer = rightwing

[quaker bill]

14. Well, they say they are all about "growth"... (n/t)

[saras]

15. OK, but there are better metaphors

The difference is that cancer isn't generally contagious, nor does it drive the cancer victim to behavior that will help spread the cancer.

The Ebola virus is a more apt metaphor. While victims are dying, they spew large amounts of the virus into the environment around them.

[cali]

16. I don't care for it.

[old mark]

17. It is not wrong to call them anything evil-they will surpass your wildest imaginings...nt

[Donald Ian Rankin]

18. It's hypocritical to do so while complaining about heated language from the right.

If you're not doing so, though, I think it's just another piece of political rhetoric.