# How to be hideous: the right wing tries to discredit the Parkland school shooting survivors **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 20, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-be-hideous-the-right-wing-tries-to-discredit-the-parkland-school-shooting-survivors/809209 "2018-02-20T17:07:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-be-hideous-the-right-wing-tries-to-discredit-the-parkland-school-shooting-survivors/809209/361 "2018-04-14T19:40:35Z")
If we have to, just to keep the balance, you guys can all forgive yourselves and I will take over the task of blaming you. I’ll do it quietly, mostly eye rolls and cursing under my breath. I just stopped judging people for apostrophe misuse, so I’ve got some spare capacity. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-be-hideous-the-right-wing-tries-to-discredit-the-parkland-school-shooting-survivors/809209/362 "2018-04-15T00:49:37Z")
> [@3trew](#): > > If we have to, just to keep the balance, you guys can all forgive yourselves and I will take over the task of blaming you. I’ll do it quietly, mostly eye rolls and cursing under my breath. I just stopped judging people for apostrophe misuse, so I’ve got some spare capacity. Your help is appreciated, but you should never stop judging people for misusing apostrophe’s, since it’s frequent misuse is a total disgrace. But if you do have spare capacity, Im sure **SA** would appreciate having an Assistant Blamer. But I suggest a more visible, direct approach than the one you outlined. Let me give you some tips on how it’s done (or possibly, “how its done”.) When you get around to blaming me for turning **SA** into a loathsome cretin, don’t forget to mention how dishonest I am, and that I lie constantly. Pick a random post of mine and ask for a cite, and then either ignore the cite or offer a half-hearted response, and when I provide an in-depth clarification, ignore it completely. Don’t worry if you no longer have any credible responses and it’s beginning to look like your ass has been handed to you once again; just say you have to go now and bugger off. Come back when the discussion has moved on and you think it may have all blown over, and resume whining and blaming. Remember, as **SA** ’s protégé, you need never feel you have to be accountable for anything you say. And remember the general guideline that you always stick to: liberals are responsible for everything wrong with the world, including why **SA** posts like a loathsome dogmatic bigoted cretin. Also, guns are terrific, lots of guns are a great way of achieving a peaceful society with no gun violence whatsoever, and they’re necessary, too, because of all the blacks. They should all be in jail, but because of liberals, blacks are running around loose all over the place. And any references to things like “reality” or “the rest of the world” can be safely ignored, because the rest of the world is self-evidently not like the USA, and therefore can and should be ignored. God bless their adorable little hearts, though, for thinking that anything that happens there has any relevance to rootin-tootin’ gun-lovin’ Conservative America, which has nothing wrong with it that can’t be fixed by regressing back to the 1950s. That’s pretty much the drill, and to be an effective Assistant Blamer you need to get it down pat. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-be-hideous-the-right-wing-tries-to-discredit-the-parkland-school-shooting-survivors/809209/363 "2018-04-15T01:50:56Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > I’m not sure I can forgive myself. ☹ Oh don’t worry about it. We know you only did it because you’re a nice person. (Imagine that, a LIBERAL who’s a nice person!) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-be-hideous-the-right-wing-tries-to-discredit-the-parkland-school-shooting-survivors/809209/364 "2018-04-15T03:00:46Z")
> [@Evil\_Economist](#): > > Charges or convictions? Isn’t there some sort of constitutional problem with locking people up just based on charges? > > … We do it all the time. Can’t make bail? Lock up. And depending on where you are (if you were unlucky enough to be in Joe Arpaio’s jurisdiction e.g.) you got treated as if you had already been convicted. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-be-hideous-the-right-wing-tries-to-discredit-the-parkland-school-shooting-survivors/809209/365 "2018-04-15T05:23:21Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Please DO forgive yourself, **ETF** ; I aided and abetted the attempts to acculturate **SA** into the SDMB community. I was most welcoming, and tried everything I knew to persuade him to treat the community as individual people, and not as a solid block of liberals-whose-viewpoints-are-WRONG-because-they-identify-as-liberals. > > Eventually, I found myself forced to realize that if he ever had anything to say that was both factual and useful for me to know, it would be pure coincidence that resulted in it being posted by him, and that information meeting those qualifications would certainly come to my attention from another quarter eventually. Under this rubric, placing him on my ignore list would not deprive me of anything other than an opportunity to be frustrated by his obstinate refusal to accept objective reality when presented with it. Thanks for that. I too followed your path and eventually wound up where you did; 'twas the only possible outcome for me. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-be-hideous-the-right-wing-tries-to-discredit-the-parkland-school-shooting-survivors/809209/366 "2018-04-15T05:27:49Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Oh don’t worry about it. We know you only did it because you’re a nice person. (Imagine that, a LIBERAL who’s a nice person!) > > 😉 Yeh, downright counterintuitive, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Economist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Evil\_Economist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Economist)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2018, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-be-hideous-the-right-wing-tries-to-discredit-the-parkland-school-shooting-survivors/809209/367 "2018-04-15T05:49:48Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Ah, [here’s another article from the same site](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/judge-delays-decision-free-killer-herman-bell-article-1.3932800). (I didn’t go off looking for these, I’m just catching up on the news after having gotten home for the evening and happened upon them.) For someone who spends so much time on these boards making up excuses for rapists, it seems odd that you would have such a bad opinion of the guy. Do you suppose he raped more people than Bill Cosby? Hey, that reminds me, Bill Cosby’s in the news again. Shouldn’t you be attacking the women he raped and calling them liars? ---
**Author:** ![Crazy\_Canuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazy_canuck/32/5282_2.png) [@Crazy\_Canuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazy_Canuck)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2018, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-be-hideous-the-right-wing-tries-to-discredit-the-parkland-school-shooting-survivors/809209/368 "2018-04-16T18:42:22Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > And yet I’m a very nice and likable guy in real life. I honestly can’t think of a single person who dislikes me. So why am I so different here, hmm? Well, if I had to guess, I’d assume it’s either because you live in a a conservative echo chamber or because you are a fucking coward in real life and afraid to say all the hateful shit in real life that you do here. I’d put good money on the second being more likely. The way you go on about shit reminds me of my late grandfather, who was also a scared old man who was completely fucking terrified by the modern world. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-be-hideous-the-right-wing-tries-to-discredit-the-parkland-school-shooting-survivors/809209.md?page=18)