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Originally Posted by samcol
Just because you don't speak out against something, doesn't mean you automatically condone it.  |
Thank you, samcol. I hope this rational perspective is extended to liberals in the future in analogous situations...eg, whether they actually "support" saddam or islamic terrorists...or extended to moderate followers of islam when they "failed" to speak out against the fundamentalist segments of their religion...
...I sensed some frustration (rightfully) in your post and hope that you now have a notion of the frustration others have felt for the past few years when equally absurd insults have been hurled at them when they didn't explicitly rail against people and ideologies that seemed ludicrous that they would support (as happens in the cases when liberals are accused of supporting terrorists or dictators)...unfortunately, this is the kind of us v. them I feel comments such as "if you aren't with us you're against us" produce...