You claim to just be pitting, but you seem to be unable to not throw in little jabs about liberalism. You say you aren’t trying to insult anyone here, yet this board is made up of mostly liberals. So don’t include that crap unless you want us to be insulted.
Whatever his stance on life-vs-choice, we know from other posts that OP is a right-winger* in the rational-vs-irrational divide. Incidents like the one he describes are more often perpetrated by right-wingers. Liberals should take it as a compliment that he singles out this incident specifically. Apparently he holds liberals to a higher standard.
But I can’t claim to be an expert on right-wing cognition. I’ve only watched Rush Limbaugh on TV once in my life.
I wouldn’t criticise OP for this: Limbaugh, the quintessential intellectual of the modern GOP, may be his inspiration. The theme of the only Limbaugh show I watched was an unflattering photo of Clinton Cabinet Secretary Donna Shalala, which Limbaugh displayed every ten minutes in order to laugh at her “ugliness.”
(* - footnote about "right-wingers intentionally omitted.)
Wish I was. At least then I’d have an excuse. I was just in too much of a hurry, as I have someplace to be soon. But I saw the article and I knew the SDMB needed me to call out this liberal wrong. So, I guess you could say, I put you first.
No excuse for not being more careful. My apologies for the sloppiness.
We needn’t get into this discussion. I try to be respectful of the pro-life position, as far as a philosophical position about the beginning of life and when a fetus becomes a person. Because the truth is no one can say for certain. But regardless of when that occurs, I am pro-choice.
The only liberals who should be insulted are those who side with the professor. And then mightily so. I’m not pitting liberalism generally, just the mind-numbingly hypocritical strain of it as practiced by Professor Dumb Bitch.
If any liberals who agree with me on her actions were offended, I apologize. I don’t see how, really, but that is not the intent of this rant. 
That’s once more than me. Now, who’s the real conservative?
An acorn is certainly an oak. What else would it possibley be? And yea, a fetus is a child.
I don’t see the big deal here, though: the woman is being prosecuted. Stealing a sign isn’t exactly a major crime, and I suspect on a college campus it happens all the time.
On second thought, vandalism of signs and stuff is so common on college campuses I don’t think she should even be prosecuted. She made herself look like a whiney little fool, which as far as I’m concerned (and I’m pro-life) is victory enough for the pro-life side.
Race is a red herring here anyway. Black women decide for themselves to have abortions. Even if there is pressure, it’s not like clinics have people grabbing black women and hustling them inside to get abortions against their will. Anti-choice types also say that pro-choice organizations deliberately place clinics in black neighborhoods, which isn’t true, and besides, demographics change. In any case, black women have more abortions because they have more unplanned pregnancies, in an environment of inadequate community support.
Subsidized Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives are a game-changer. Hopefully the imminent arrival of gandarusa will do the same for men. Think of it, a foolproof, temporary way to avoid “baby-mama drama.” Imagine the possibilities…
A potential oak tree, but not one yet. A fetus is not yet a child. I am not yet a corpse.
Taking your foot out of your mouth just long enough to shoot it. Magellan, you are truly a wonderful creature.
If she wasn’t multitasking, what was she doing? Crying? Screaming?
All this for making off with a sign? Man, I don’t want to be in the shoes of the next kid you happen to spot stealing candy.
Ah, so your intention is to hector anyone who doesn’t agree precisely with the bizarrely disproportionate outrage you seem to feel about this relatively trivial event? Thanks, I’ll pass.
Interfering with someone else’s legally exercised freedom of expression to the point of stealing their sign is pretty reprehensible, I admit, even if I find the target unsympathetic.
That’s OK. We’re a patient bunch around here.
Eh. I see it as pretty much the same as shouting down someone during a rally or counter-protest. The were making an emotional play by showing the poster, she countered with an emotional play by destroying it. Aside from the property rights angle, I don’t have an ethical problem with it. And given that the value of the item was negligible, I don’t even have much of a problem with that.
I am less than impressed by her defense, though:
Oh, shut up, lady. Either apologize for losing your temper, or own up to staging your own little bit of political theater and accept the consequences. But don’t try to act like you’re the victim, here.
I can only imagine your frothing response when you learn that someone has been stealing election signs from your neighborhood. WHY HAS OBAMA DONE NOTHING ABOUT THE PLAGUE OF SIGN THIEVES?
Feminazi? Really? Yeah let’s equate the woman’s rights movement with people who gassed a million Jewish children to death.
:rolleyes:
No wonder most people think Magellan is an asshole.
Sure, and I do too, but that’s not what this thread is really about, far as I can see.
Here’s is a situation that I think is roughly comparable, for the board’s consideration.
During election seasons in France, political posters go up all over the place. There are at least six major parties, most of whom are somewhat antagonistic to each other (with extremes from Communists to neo-Nazis, how could it be otherwise?) Within hours of going up, many of these posters get defaced, torn down or pasted over, and hours after that, very often the replacements get defaced, torn down or pasted over. It’s really rather comical, and I’ve got quite a lot of photos of these examples of impromptu street art in my collection.
Anyway, should we (or maybe the French) be launching Pit threads to decry these reprehensible examples of suppression of free speech? I’d say, “Not really”.
Well, I admit, it’d be kinda funny if instead of stealing the sign, the pro-choicers had slapped a big “CHOICE = FREEDOM” sticker on it…
Tip o’ the iceberg.