James Wolcott makes an observation, one near to my own heart, on the hateful words that flow like water over at Little Green Footballs:
This one sentence amid all that writhing distemper leapt out at me:“May he [i.e., me] be kidnapped by ‘insurgents’ in Iraq then appear on an ugly net broadcast. I wonder, if in the moment before the knife started sawing into his fleashy neck if he might rethink his opinions on the GWOT.”
He later corrected the spelling to “fleshy,” lest anyone think I possess a flashy neck.
This sentence leapt out not only because it was directed at yours truly but because it fits a pattern of measel spots I’ve discerned.
More and more the rightwing militant “anti-idiotarians” (as they deludedly think of themselves)have been relishing the prospect of antiwar figures undergoing the Daniel Pearl treatment. They keep bringing it up as the retribution that’ll deliver certain choice heads on a platter. In a sick irony, Daniel Pearl’s marytrdom has provided a negative inspiration to certain super patriots professing to fight for truth, justice, and the American way.
A long time reader and a regular weekly commenter (under a nom de plume), I often find myself entirely aghast at some of the outright frightening comments offered by the little ballers. I play along like a good “soldier” when commenting. They take me so seriously. There is no discussion within those comments. No real snark or back and forth. It has been and always will be the very definition of a circle jerk.
It is also inhearantly evil, in a teenage angst, “I tried to commit suicide when I was 10 years old” kind of way. It is the epitome of real hatred and ignormance in my humble opinion.
Read all of Wolcott’s post. Then go read Tom Watson’s little essay on another right-wing hater. Such language from such a purty gal. And, the wife of a baseball player to boot. Shame that.
Granted, hatred exists on the left as well. Of that there is no doubt. But, the left does not go around stating with near daily pitched hatred that the wingnusts are traitors and should be strung up as such. There is a great difference. Further, one is hard pressed to find such rabid examples of fantastical death imagery and violent day dreaming in forums of the left.
An all important subtlety completely lost on the ilk who wander the factually and reality bereft threads at LGF.
Such dreaming of violence is a form of blood lust, of course. Something which is seen on both sides of the political spectrum, evident in games, film, television, literature and real events.
As Sideshow notes:
Everyone is linking Wolcott’s Headhunters for a reason: He makes a really good point about the lust for violence that erupts from the right-wingers when they talk about liberals.
Yup. Personally, I don’t think wingers are traitors, nor do I fantasize about their heads being lobbed off by a tree hugging terrorist. The worst I think of wingers is that they are wimps and hypocrits.
As I’ve said many times before, I”ll fight to the death to protect a wingnuts right to be wrong.
