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Who would have thought that a relatively benign article like this one would resulted in the vitriolic comments exhibited in the letters posted here.
You underestimate the hate and capacity for violence inherent in the radical right. It's just taken an occasion with an old-school leftist to get them to express it. If Salon put on Jane Fonda or Noam Chomsky or even Paul Krugman, you'd get the same showing from the right-wing propaganda corps.
A lot of them are out of a job these days because they lost. So they're bitter. And they were bitter before.
Finally, I really think Salon ought to consider making a rule limiting the number of back-and-forth statements made by individuals trying to get in the last word.
All threads get closed after a few days, so it's self-limiting.
Tomorrow we can talk about something else.
