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You don’t understand. I am not offended because there is a specific POV I hold that he doesn’t agree with. I am offended because he puts all Americans in the same category, regardless of what their personal views are. You could agree with him politically on everything, and he would still put you in the EVIL category just because you are an American. That is simple prejudice.
There is a long debate going on in GD about whether or not Islam is a violent religion. People are outraged at the idea that some would hold the actions of some Muslims against all Muslims. But Der Trihs holds the actions of some Americans against all Americans. What is the difference?
I have a feeling that most pro-choicers on the board would object to your connecting their basic pro-choice POV with this rather disgusting statement that Der Trihs made. It would be similar to me, a pro-life person, saying that pro-choicers want to chain every pregant women to a bed and suck the baby out of her so no babies would ever be born, and laugh at the ones who wanted to keep their babies. The problem with the statement is that it is clearly not so. The only possible reason to make a statement like that is to be inflammatory. Der Trihs is not stupid. He knows these things are not reasonable, and he says them only to be inflammatory. There should be no surprise when people become inflamed.
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Nicely put.
I don’t think the notion that the unpleasant person who is the subject of this OP gets Pitted because his opinions are unpopular. Ravening hatred of Republicans, of conservative ideas, of religious belief, and of anyone who questions the great Goddess Abortion is neither unpopular nor rare on the SDMB.
I think the issue is as stated - he gives no support for his hatred other than to restate it, and even more because his focus is much more on hatred of private individuals, not merely their ideas.
Certainly foam-flecked hatred of Bush is essentially mainstream opinion hereabouts. But he is more an abstract figure, since he is a politician which none of the fanatics have ever met or even seen except thru a lens of disgust and detestation. When it comes to actual people, the kind one tends to interact with on a daily basis, Dopers tend to be somewhat more circumspect in their condemnations. Yes, some of the bigger fools condemn anyone and everyone who dissent from the latest talking point, but not everyone is that stupid.
Der Trihs is. He goes beyond “your ideas are stupid” to “you are stupid and evil and bad and you hate women and I want to kill anyone who thinks like you do because you hate everyone and you suck and you want to enslave women and rape little boys.”
Need it be said that Lemur866’s idea of projection is very likely on the mark? Someone so consumed with hatred, as is Der Trihs, is all the more likely to see hatred in everyone else. Nothing is more easy than to assume that your motives exist in your opponents.
Regards,
Shodan
