OK, I have to go to New York

[gridlore]

and kill Ann Coulter. Really. Because if I do it before fimbrethil and a horde of others get a hold of her, it will be an act of mercy.

Seriously, after everything this moron has said about the city and people of New York, how is it she is still able to live there? I can't imagine her jumping on the 6 Train at 103rd without being beaten senseless by outraged New Yorkers, and would immigrant-phobic Ann even dare to ride in a taxi? I think NYC should engage in a mass shunning. She doesn't get served in stores or at restaurants. Doors get slammed in her face. No deliveries to her home or office. Nothing illegal, just New Yorkers telling this upstart import that she's not welcome, and can go back to whatever foul pit spawned her anytime now.

That is, unless I kill her first.

Comments

[todkaninchen.livejournal.com]

Don't mean to be Devil's Advocate, but...

...I'm not sure why the anger.

She seems to be saying that politics should be argued on merits and not hyper-emotionality by people that you don't risk vilification if you argue against...

...which is an oddly self fulfilling prophecy because you're offering just such vilification for her questioning, albeit in an inflammatory manner, the motivations and qualifications of these women as political speakers.

I'm not a fan of Ann Coulter and haven't heard anything from her (beyond that clip) in over two and a half years, but I think dissent against an inherently emotional method of persuasion in a process that demands rationalism isn't a bad thing.

Her motivations may or may not be kosher, but I'm not sure animosity is warranted.

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

Ann Coulter is the kind of person who would poke a pit bull unceasingly and then complain when it bit her. Her style (usually) is to say things that deliberately provoke strong emotion in others, so for her to then attempt to look as though she is "taking the moral high ground" and call for argument absent emotion is the lowest form of attack ad hominem. Very like the pre-teen holding his finger half an inch away from his sibling and repeatedly saying, "I'm not touching you."

[todkaninchen.livejournal.com]

The problem is--I think--both sides reacting emotionally based on percieved slights to their own belief systems and ideals without looking at the long picture or taking into account the realities of living in a social construct where power is shared with people that don't think the same way.

Without the pressures/controls/unified set of ideals conferred by a shared, central religion and paired authority, there is no practical way to make a majority share a belief system.

(Not that I think that's a good idea.)

People need to learn to deal with the difficulty and create some form of method to interact and lose the antagonism.

[chaotic-nipple.livejournal.com]

Where did you get that icon? I must have one in that style!