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Hate speech
By Steven | May 10, 2010
In recent issues of the Listener, Deborah Hill Cone has been upping the frequency of her snarky swipes at the left. Last week, she highlighted the irony of liberals who preach tolerance but try to “shut down” Ann Coulter’s speech. She suggested that “[c]onservative speakers can’t visit campuses in the US now without bodyguards”. What, all of them?
Anyway, who are these liberals calling for her books to be burnt? Aren’t most liberals simply trying to point out that Coulter’s bile-filled screeds are riddled with errors and that she’s not worth listening to?
The week before, Deborah wrote:
The Spectator’s Hugo Rifkind took the words right out of my mouth about why he couldn’t be a leftie: “I could never be comfortable on the left, there’s too much hate there.”
Can she seriously believe this? The usual knock on liberals is that they are softies, tree-hugging, criminal-coddling, immigrant-loving, PC wetnurses. They care too much. Righteousness, that’s the liberal speciality, not hatred.
Sure, the left produce some nasty invective, but it’s not a patch – not a stitch on a patch – of the hatred spilled on the right. Where’s the left’s equivalent of WhaleOil? Or Michael Laws? Of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Powerline, Michael Savage?
Deborah should be taken out the back and shot.
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