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But I'm getting terribly frustrated. Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, Malkin et all are demonizing "liberals". They employ tactics that are the same tactics that I GUARANTEE you will see the resemblance of in you have the stomach to surf through the Stormfront forums. Does that mean they are the moral equivalents of white supremacists? No. But I think the similarity is in and of itself cause for concern.
When you keep noticing over and over and over and over again parallels, similar sounding arguments ... there's something going on. Its time to start worrying.
When bigots who hate black people demonize black people you see a black person, yet the racist sees "you blacks". When an antiSemite demonizes a Jewish people you see Jewish people, yet the anti-Semite sees "you Jews" When an anti-liberal demonizes "liberals", the anti-liberal sees "the libs" (if I had a nickel for every time Hannity has addressed some one, even his co-host, as "you liberals" ...). But here's the catch, when someone hates "liberals" no image of a person comes to mind. You don't notice, easily, that an artificial category has been drawn, and an "enemy" has been dumped into it.
When you hate "blacks" its pretty much only going to be black people that fall into that category. When you hate "jews" that category also has some restrictions, but its looser than skin color. Ex: The Nazis "discovered" Eric Remarque was of Jewish origins after they decided to ban and burn his masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front; Henry Ford called his rivals the DuPonts "Jews" despite them being a Huguenot family.
Now when you hate "liberals" look what happens. Anyone can fall in. Its a category that people don't notice is a category. That's why I'm getting frustrated. When Michelle Malkin scans the blogosphere, and can find one single comment - I mean that ONE SINGLE COMMENT at the Washington Post - that is "unhinged" and act like that supports her thesis that "liberals" are unhinged ... that is hate-mongering, whether people recognize it as such or not.
