The Law of Karma: Take 2
On Sundays’s post on Karmic convergence, I attempted a reasonable missive to conservative blogger of repute Jeff Goldstein, the recipient of a one-woman flame war gone overboard. I felt so good about myself that I left a link to my post on his message board. Unfortunately, my message was undermined by two hyper-liberal hyperbolic sentences I was fool enough not to delete. As result, I enjoyed some karmic backlash of my own. I deserved it.
One guy, calling him/herself Chaos, even left a message on a different post. It’s delicious:
And you wonder why progressives are stereotyped as immature, paranoid buffoons.
Hence the title of this posting.
Regarding the karma post, some interesting things were said in response. I’d like to thank the people who took the time and thought to leave their comments. I’ve been mulling them since Sunday night. Chaos piped in to inform me that "the vast majority of you clearly don’t know better." Thank you, but that is a ping pong ball. I can lob that at you and yours just as easily. No matter who says it, it is purely opinion and therefore improvable. Meanwhile, Pablo asked:
Why can’t it just be wrong? Why does condemnation have to go both ways regarding the clear wrongdoing of just one person? … Why isn’t it enough to note that one of yours is way off the rails?
This is why we never get anywhere.
He’s dead right: that is why we never get anywhere. He’s right to take me to task, I was foolish. I apologize. CosmicConservative also berated me calling me in my hypocritical stance.
But you had to put this sentence in there too: “No doubt her army of salivating lap-dog pit bulls are Googling the perp’s address…” and this: “To be sure, the right suffers from it’s share of whackjobs, but that’s their mystique. They benefit from that, feed on it as Ms. Malkin frequently demonstrates.”
And then you have this plea to Jeff Goldstein: “Please refrain from the very human tendency to generalize all progressives by her actions.”
Yeah. what you said. Please refrain from the very human tendency to generalize all conservatives by any one conservatives actions.
CC - I stand accused and I am guilty. He wasn’t finished, though:
Is it possible you don’t understand that when liberals get together to gush over the political hit-job movie “Fahrenheit 911″ that we view that as you “feeding on the mystique” of lies, exaggerations and intentional misrepresentations?
I am unaware of that happening. I’ve never seen the movie, and none of my friends have been known to "gush" over it (sounds dirty!) Lord of the Rings, maybe, but not F 9/11.
Cosmic also had another point to make, one I have noted before. (sic)
[I]t is amazaing how startingly similar the attitudes and condescenscion is on both sides. You could take a typical post on a right-wing website, replace “moonbat” with “wingnut”, replace “Kossack” with “Dittohead”, replace “traitor” with “baby-killer” and post that on a leftwing site and it would slide right into the thread as if it were born to be there.
It’s sad, really.
Quite.
Ahh, Zen and the Art of Paranoid Buffoonery… I learned something here: Stick my neck out, the hatchet will fall. All the faster when I deserve it.