Liblogs and Hate

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Say it isn't so, anti semites and racism infesting the Liberal ranks, gee sounds like Daily Kos

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/f...nd-liblogs.aspx

Kelly McParland: Liberals need to deal with fruitcakes in the ranks

When Stephen Harper won the leadership of the newly united Conservative party, he put considerable effort into chasing the worst of the right-wing loonies from Tory ranks.

Nutbars had done untold damage to the party over the years. Liberals, and Liberal-friendly press hounds, knew that at some point in any campaign, some right-wing fruitcake could be counted on to spout off about gays or God or the abomination of allowing women to wear pants, and a few million votes would go “poof”, just like that. Harper did his best to put a lid on it, earning himself much abuse for “muzzling” party members, especially from Liberals and hacks upset that their fun would be spoiled.

Michael Ignatieff might want to consider something similar, though, considering the trouble a few Liberal bloggers are causing over the situation in Gaza. Liblogs, a site that aggregates blogs from writers identifying themselves as Liberals, has become alarmed enough to post a notice distancing itself from the venom being spewed by anti-Israeli bloggers on the site.

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Liblogs appears to have cleaned out the worst of the hate messages. But it has to be worrying to a party that is accustomed to viewing itself as the voice of middle-of-the-road reason, and which makes a habit of portraying Conservatives as extremists and cranks, to discover so thoroughly healthy a nest of fringe-dwellers infesting its ranks.

[Topaz]

Say it isn't so, anti semites and racism infesting the Liberal ranks, gee sounds like Daily Kos

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/f...nd-liblogs.aspx

Kelly McParland: Liberals need to deal with fruitcakes in the ranks

Everyone in Canada has the "freedom or speech" even if it's bad, then the law takes in. No matter what party the bloggers says it supports, unless that leader of that party says and believes in the same thing that blogger is saying, it's no big deal. Rational people can make up their own minds about what is being said and decide from there but it really depends on the beliefs of the leader of the party. Isn't that one of the reasons Canadians are dying in Afghanistan??

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Everyone in Canada has the "freedom or speech" even if it's bad, then the law takes in. No matter what party the bloggers says it supports, unless that leader of that party says and believes in the same thing that blogger is saying, it's no big deal. Rational people can make up their own minds about what is being said and decide from there but it really depends on the beliefs of the leader of the party. Isn't that one of the reasons Canadians are dying in Afghanistan??

Good, I hope that applies to Conservatives also

[AngusThermopyle]

Isn't that one of the reasons Canadians are dying in Afghanistan??

Actually no its not, in fact what you posted has pretty much nothing at all to do with the reason Canada is involved in Afghanistan.

You really should take the time to learn why Canada is in Afghanistan and the Canadian mandate before you reference it in order to make a fallacious point.

[Alta4ever]

Everyone in Canada has the "freedom or speech" even if it's bad, then the law takes in. No matter what party the bloggers says it supports, unless that leader of that party says and believes in the same thing that blogger is saying, it's no big deal. Rational people can make up their own minds about what is being said and decide from there but it really depends on the beliefs of the leader of the party. Isn't that one of the reasons Canadians are dying in Afghanistan??

Really? I think not, look at the Human Rights Commisions across this Country they are thought police with a Kangaroo court they have overstepped their orginal role, and now prosecute for hurt feelings.

[punked]

Everyone in Canada has the "freedom or speech" even if it's bad, then the law takes in. No matter what party the bloggers says it supports, unless that leader of that party says and believes in the same thing that blogger is saying, it's no big deal. Rational people can make up their own minds about what is being said and decide from there but it really depends on the beliefs of the leader of the party. Isn't that one of the reasons Canadians are dying in Afghanistan??

That isn't true.

[BigAl]

Everyone in Canada has the "freedom or speech" even if it's bad, then the law takes in. No matter what party the bloggers says it supports, unless that leader of that party says and believes in the same thing that blogger is saying, it's no big deal. Rational people can make up their own minds about what is being said and decide from there but it really depends on the beliefs of the leader of the party. Isn't that one of the reasons Canadians are dying in Afghanistan??

There are two sides to this equation. First: freedom of speech. Good idea, clearly, and one of the tenets on which this culture has been built. And one bad apple can easily spoil the barrel as far as party loyalties are concerned -- history has shown us that fundamentalists and nut jobs can appear and throw their tacit support behind all kinds of initiatives (i.e. the KKK or the Hell's Angels -- anybody faulting a party because psychotic white supremacists and drug-dealing bikers support their platform?). That said, it's been said cowards hide behind freedom. Freedom of speech is a great thing, but people need to be educated to the point where they can weed out fundamentalist rhetoric -- the chaff from the wheat, as it were -- but it's an individual responsibility to do so. There will always be people who will voice Neanderthalic ideals under the umbrella of "freedom of speech"...we just need to be on the watch for it personally.