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Calling Malia Obama :"A typical street whore."...etc...
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Anonymous
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Just a bit of feedback to the "killing her baby" poster: I am pro-choice, but try to understand and find common ground with pro-lifers. Seeing a phrase like that one, however, convinces me of nothing, and makes me want to throw back some equally obnoxious version of my "truth". That something is true (in your understanding of the universe) does not necessarily make it a convincing argument.
Please accept this comment as an attempt to contribute to more useful discourse, not as a put down of you or your opinions. If it sounds patronizing, I apologize -- that is not the intent. |
Anonymous
| I'm the poster who chose not to have an abortion; truly, part of my reasoning was that I would be ending a life. Whether at that point it was the equivalent of the bean we sprouted on a cotton ball in Science lab (non-sentient) - it was an alive being on the continuum of what we understand a human being to be. Killing your baby may be an oversimplification of this, or it just may be ungarnished, but I don't see a vast difference between that and 'ending a life'. Maybe the word killing? Abortion is uncomfortable. Many women bear the consequences ( emotional, physical) for years to come. Making it antiseptic and non-offensive does not take away the raw experience that it is. That does not mean that women who choose abortion have great choices; let's work on that. Hopefully abortion prevention and understanding are a place we can come together. |
Anonymous
| How the hell did we get here? An ignorant, racist comment about a child turns into an abortion discussion? I'm confused. |
Anonymous
The comments about Malia, which we all deplored, let to a comment about Letterman's joke, which I think we all consider a meistake, although there are differences about how much importance to assign to it; that led to a discussion of Bristol, even though there is disagreement about whether the joke was about Bristol or Willow; Bristol led us to abortion. A clear chain of association. That's the way discussion works. Just like your brief rhetorical trope led to my long-winded, overly serious, response. 
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Anonymous
The art of conversation--lovely! 
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