Outrageous Outrage of the Day!
It’s getting more and more difficult to keep up with the brain-dead outrageous outrages firehosing out of the strange echo chamber known as the wingnut blogosphere on a daily — sometimes hourly — basis. It’s a non-stop cavalcade of crazy.
Today’s OO is one of the stupidest and most transparently deceptive ones yet. Apparently started by World Net Daily, then picked up by Alex Jones and prisonplanet.com, then by Fox Nation, then spreading like wildfire across the dimbulb hate blogs like “Weasel Zippers,” they’re all shrieking and hyperventilating over a quote by Elena Kagan. The talking point they’re mindlessly parroting: Kagan argued that “certain types of speech could be disappeared.” It proves she’s a dangerous commie radical!
The idiocy. It burns.
The quote from Kagan that these morons are posting on their own blogs shows how dishonest and/or stupid they’re being. Here’s what Kagan said:
“I take it as a given that we live in a society marred by racial and gender inequality, that certain forms of speech perpetuate and promote this inequality, and that the uncoerced disappearance of such speech would be cause for great elation.”
Not only is this statement completely uncontroversial, it says the exact opposite of what they’re shrieking.
“Uncoerced.” Is this an obscure word? Maybe we should take up a collection to buy the wingnuts dictionaries.
Frank says: