Vigilante Bingo ☀
I’ve seen it, resisted it, and cannot any longer. Maybe I just don’t visit enough of the racist hatemonger right wing websites (surely an oversight on my part, since I am a conservative and all) but by far the most racist, angry, and far-reaching diatribes I have seen have come from the left “caricaturing” the right, or the Tea Partiers, or what have you. This seems especially true of comics and cartoons, which are apparently assumed to have a sort of “wink wink, nudge nudge, can’t you see I am joking?” aspect to them, which does nothing to diminish their debasement. They remain as detestable as would actual cartoons advocating what these do “only in jest.”
Do you ever tune in to AM talk radio? Hosts paid in millions, with audiences numbers measured in multimillions, who are on the public record with plentiful examples of hate slinging and racist remarks.
Peruse the published books by prominent conservative talkers with incendiary titles? (i.e., “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder”, “Deliver us From Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism and Liberalism”, “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, etc.…)
Have you ever attended a gun show? Do examine some of the literature, banners, posters and T-shirts on display.
Are you old enough to have recollections of past acrimonious political conflicts? Or know the history of civil rights and subsequent conservative embrace of the Southern Strategy?
