A Hate Crimes Thought Experiment
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A Hate Crimes Thought Experiment
One thing that never fails to amaze me about the Religious Right is its fundamental lack of concern about the truth of most of what it says and how outright lying seems to have become the foundation for many of its efforts.
It happened earlier this year with the stimulus legislation and it happened again recently with the DHS report where, in both cases, bogus information started floating around the right-wing echo chamber which was then amplified by every organization chiming it and repeating the same falsehoods. Inevitably they all end up lying about it because they don’t bother checking its veracity – and they don’t bother verifying things primarily because they simply don’t care whether what they are saying is true or not, so long as it seems to advance their agenda.
Case in point is this new column by Janet Porter on hate crimes legislation, which she calls “the Pedophile Protection Act” because it would, she claims, “give heightened protection to pedophiles.”
I already addressed this sort of nonsensical claim last week, pointing out that things like pedophilia and bestiality are still crimes and passage of hate crimes legislation will have no impact on that because the two issues are utterly unrelated, despite the Right’s insulting attempts to conflate the two.
But, believe it or not, that is not even the worst part of Porter’s column:
via A Hate Crimes Thought Experiment | Right Wing Watch.
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