Right-Wingers Hate Me! (Do They Hate YOU Too? - Find Out!) [View All]

[GiovanniC]

For so long I have seen members of DU hated on at websites like Freak Republic and other right-wing whack-job sites, but I have been woefully ignored... until now!

Last week, in a thread about Terri Schiavo, someone suggested that Terri Schiavo should live because she was not a vegetable and she could eat and swallow on her own. That prompted a series of posts by myself that indicated that Terri Schiavo has the same likelihood of swallowing "as a chia pet."

In other words, she had NO likelihood of swallowing, because she is a vegetable. That is nothing derogatory to Terri Schiavo; she simply is what she is: PVS. To further illustrate my point, I listed a few other inanimate objects that also had the same (i.e., zero) likelihood of being capable of swallowing. Note that I did not, in fact, call Terri Schiavo "a chia pet".

I point that last thing out because I happened to stumble upon close to a dozen different right-wing websites this morning, all of which feature those comments by little ol' me, except (surprise, surprise!) they find the statements to be completely morally outrageous, a travesty of all that is holy and pure in this world, cruel and horrific and there is much hand-wringing and pontificating. Oh, and "reprehensible", I forgot reprehensible.

This is the site that spawned all the other comments:

http://hundredpercenter.blogspot.com/2005/03/democraticundergrounds-reprehensible.html

Some of you also made it to the "reprehensible" list, but on most of the other right-wing-rag-sites, I get a more prominent headline billing.

I've always said that you can tell when you're on the right track by the kinds of people you piss off. I think we're on it now.