The Jewish Partisans in Poland and Russia in WWII used to dance on the graves of informers and collaborators after they executed them. Obviously we are not doomed we hope) heroes like the Partizaner, and I am opposed to any use of violence against our political opponents, but Falwell was an enemy of the human race. It wasn't just that we disagreed with "some" of his opinions. It is that he devoted his whole life, rather effectively, to making life hell for us and everyone we care about and to frustrating every cause we support and advancing every cause we hate. I can think of no points in common whatsoever that any decent person would have with Falwell. I'm glad he's gone, and none too soon. He'd feel the same about me, believe it. I hope he met his Maker; the Rev. has a lot answer for. I don't feel particularly self-righteous or in any way emblematic of virtue, but the point is not even whether I do or whether I have a right to be happy that a deadly enemy's gone to Jesus, but that anyone should happy. I'll extend him exactly as much compassion as he would me. And I'm not even "hard left," just ask the hard leftists around here.
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On May 16, 2007, at 6:07 AM, Joseph Catron wrote:
>
> > The comments I've read from anti-Falwell types
> have been disgusting
> > and heartless. Celebrate the death of a man
> because you disagreed with
> > some of his opinions and political activism? How
> humane. The most
> > passionate anti-Falwell types hated him because he
> did not support
> > homosexual behavior and because he was
> anti-abortion. This alone makes
> > someone a hateful, worthless bigot according to
> the hard left. But
> > let's just say for a moment that Falwell is a bad
> as these folks
> > claim. How does celebrating his death and laughing
> about such a
> > tragedy make his critics any better? In fact, it
> arguably makes them
> > look much worse. For all the talk about Falwell
> being a hypocrite from
> > these people, perhaps they should stick their own
> self-righteous faces
> > in front of a mirror.
>
> Oh please. So all this be kind to the religious
> stuff now extends to
> Falwell? Falwell was a hateful reactionary creep. He
> helped elect
> Reagan. He called Mohammed a terrorist and blamed my
> kind of people
> for 9/11. ("I really believe that the pagans, and
> the abortionists,
> and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who
> are actively
> trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the
> ACLU, People For
> the American Way, all of them who have tried to
> secularize America. I
> point the finger in their face and say 'you helped
> this happen.'")
> Fuck him.
>
> Doug
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