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More Idiotic Moral Equivalence

From a discussion over at sci.space.shuttle (I know, it seems pretty off topic for that newsgroups, but anti-semitism came up in the context of Ramon's Shuttle flight tomorrow, and it brought out the usual Palestinian apologists...)

Sure, individuals within that group have committed terrible acts, as have individuals from every other group on the planet. Did Timothy McVeigh make you fear and hate white christians?

To which I responded:

This is a truly odious comparison.

You're comparing the act of a deranged individual to a conscious and deliberate murderous policy, supported by large segments of a population.

Maybe you can refresh my memory, but I don't recall any public opinion polls of significant numbers of "white Christians" supporting Tim McVeigh's actions.

And perhaps I missed it, or it didn't get adequate coverage because of "white-Christian bias" in the news media, but I can't recall any instance of "white Christian" people thronging in the streets, and passing out candy, and cheering and ululating when they heard the news of the Oklahoma City bombing.

I must have been watching something else when they ran the endless interviews with "white Christians" about how those dumb Okies deserved to be blown up because of their support for their oppressive government.

And were "white Christian" parents dressing their pre-school kids up like Tim McVeigh, and getting them to chant "Death to the Fascist Amerikan Government!" and giving them little truck bombs as toys? Did I miss that, too?

Can you point me to any links for anything like that? I'd love to see them.

Oh, and, by the way, I hate to break it to you, but McVeigh was agnostic...

Posted by Rand Simberg at January 15, 2003 08:52 AM
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Well fisked, indeed.

Posted by The Sanity Inspector at January 15, 2003 12:07 PM

Hehe, I applaud any rant that works in the word 'ululating' in it. The imagery that word conjures up in my head just makes me giggle.

Posted by Hefty at January 16, 2003 07:13 AM


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