Comments on: Sorry, Leftism: You Don’t Get to Disown the Polanski List http://pjmedia.com/blog/sorry-leftism-you-dont-get-to-disown-the-polanski-list/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:18:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Salieri's Ghost http://pjmedia.com/blog/sorry-leftism-you-dont-get-to-disown-the-polanski-list/#comment-424483 Salieri's Ghost Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:29:15 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68422#comment-424483 Twisted Colour has a very good point. It's inane to say that because some leftists do a thing then all leftists are responsible for that that thing. That's like saying that "a few white men lynched blacks so no white man gets to disown lynching". It's absurd. Especially when we are talking about the abstract (and perhaps ultimately useless) terms of right and left. The left is nothing more than a collection of beliefs that stand in part or in whole in opposition to the right and vice versa. Marxists and american democrats have little in common, the same for libertarians and neo-conservatives. Twisted Colour has a very good point. It’s inane to say that because some leftists do a thing then all leftists are responsible for that that thing. That’s like saying that “a few white men lynched blacks so no white man gets to disown lynching”. It’s absurd.

Especially when we are talking about the abstract (and perhaps ultimately useless) terms of right and left. The left is nothing more than a collection of beliefs that stand in part or in whole in opposition to the right and vice versa. Marxists and american democrats have little in common, the same for libertarians and neo-conservatives.

]]> By: Twisted_Colour http://pjmedia.com/blog/sorry-leftism-you-dont-get-to-disown-the-polanski-list/#comment-414444 Twisted_Colour Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:53:26 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68422#comment-414444 <i>Study history much?</i> Why yes, yes I do. Yourself? Study history much?

Why yes, yes I do. Yourself?

]]> By: Knotacommie http://pjmedia.com/blog/sorry-leftism-you-dont-get-to-disown-the-polanski-list/#comment-414392 Knotacommie Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:32:36 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68422#comment-414392 I guarantee Mr Polanski this-If you had done that to MY 13 yo daughter you would never had had the chance to flee the country in the first place. They would have put me on trial for doing to you what Charles Manson did to your pregnant wife Sharon Tate. Thats the only thing I sympathize with you about, Polanski. In every other respect your conduct is no different than the scumbag Manson, and you deserve the same treatment Charles Manson gets. I guarantee Mr Polanski this-If you had done that to MY 13 yo daughter you would never had had the chance to flee the country in the first place. They would have put me on trial for doing to you what Charles Manson did to your pregnant wife Sharon Tate. Thats the only thing I sympathize with you about, Polanski. In every other respect your conduct is no different than the scumbag Manson, and you deserve the same treatment Charles Manson gets.

]]> By: Now and Then http://pjmedia.com/blog/sorry-leftism-you-dont-get-to-disown-the-polanski-list/#comment-414200 Now and Then Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:05:16 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68422#comment-414200 re: 112 . . ."There's enough truth in it to make you squirm." - Kenny Boy re: 112 . . .”There’s enough truth in it to make you squirm.” – Kenny Boy

]]> By: RobertS http://pjmedia.com/blog/sorry-leftism-you-dont-get-to-disown-the-polanski-list/#comment-414135 RobertS Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:58:40 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68422#comment-414135 re #112 Twisted_Colour Wow. Amazingly stupid comment. Painfully misinformed. re #112 Twisted_Colour

Wow. Amazingly stupid comment. Painfully misinformed.

]]> By: Jackson http://pjmedia.com/blog/sorry-leftism-you-dont-get-to-disown-the-polanski-list/#comment-413827 Jackson Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:24:53 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68422#comment-413827 <i>“Sorry, Leftism: You Don’t Get to Disown the Polanski List” Ok, then. Sorry, Wingnuts: You don’t get to disown slavery, the KKK, lynching, Timothy McVeigh, Pinochet, Marcos, Suharto, Iran-Contra, Enron, the current financial crisis, clubbing baby seals and Jonah Goldberg.</i> If that isn't the most ignorant post I've seen today, I don't know what is. Study history much? “Sorry, Leftism: You Don’t Get to Disown the Polanski List”

Ok, then.

Sorry, Wingnuts: You don’t get to disown slavery, the KKK, lynching, Timothy McVeigh, Pinochet, Marcos, Suharto, Iran-Contra, Enron, the current financial crisis, clubbing baby seals and Jonah Goldberg.

If that isn’t the most ignorant post I’ve seen today, I don’t know what is. Study history much?

]]> By: Twisted_Colour http://pjmedia.com/blog/sorry-leftism-you-dont-get-to-disown-the-polanski-list/#comment-413794 Twisted_Colour Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:22:31 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68422#comment-413794 "Sorry, Leftism: You Don’t Get to Disown the Polanski List" Ok, then. Sorry, Wingnuts: You don't get to disown slavery, the KKK, lynching, Timothy McVeigh, Pinochet, Marcos, Suharto, Iran-Contra, Enron, the current financial crisis, clubbing baby seals and Jonah Goldberg. “Sorry, Leftism: You Don’t Get to Disown the Polanski List”

Ok, then.

Sorry, Wingnuts: You don’t get to disown slavery, the KKK, lynching, Timothy McVeigh, Pinochet, Marcos, Suharto, Iran-Contra, Enron, the current financial crisis, clubbing baby seals and Jonah Goldberg.

]]> By: Jackson http://pjmedia.com/blog/sorry-leftism-you-dont-get-to-disown-the-polanski-list/#comment-413778 Jackson Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:03:35 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68422#comment-413778 <i>108. Jackson: “Maybe I’m misremembering, but I’m not seeing the Mark Foley/Roman Polanski parallel. ” Le me help you out there. Both enticed minors to have sex, a felony. Polanski admitted he actually had sex. Foley didn’t admit it.</i> Both enticed minors to have sex? That implies follow through. So Foley had sex with that page? IIRC the page was playing a prank on the old perv and it never actually came to anything. Not defending Foley's actions (and never have) but they certainly don't lessen the severity of Polanski's crime one iota. Making the parallel is an attempt to do just that. And, as others have said, nobody defends Foley. He got kicked to the curb by his own party. It's rewriting history to say there's any hypocrisy in the right's reaction to either scandal. As much as you might want some things to be true, sometimes they just aren't. 108. Jackson:
“Maybe I’m misremembering, but I’m not seeing the Mark Foley/Roman Polanski parallel. ”

Le me help you out there. Both enticed minors to have sex, a felony. Polanski admitted he actually had sex. Foley didn’t admit it.

Both enticed minors to have sex? That implies follow through. So Foley had sex with that page? IIRC the page was playing a prank on the old perv and it never actually came to anything. Not defending Foley’s actions (and never have) but they certainly don’t lessen the severity of Polanski’s crime one iota. Making the parallel is an attempt to do just that.

And, as others have said, nobody defends Foley. He got kicked to the curb by his own party. It’s rewriting history to say there’s any hypocrisy in the right’s reaction to either scandal. As much as you might want some things to be true, sometimes they just aren’t.

]]> By: Anonymous http://pjmedia.com/blog/sorry-leftism-you-dont-get-to-disown-the-polanski-list/#comment-413702 Anonymous Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:44:09 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68422#comment-413702 108. Jackson: "Maybe I’m misremembering, but I’m not seeing the Mark Foley/Roman Polanski parallel. " Le me help you out there. Both enticed minors to have sex, a felony. Polanski admitted he actually had sex. Foley didn't admit it. 108. Ginnie . . . Aren't you supposed to take responsibility for your words? You didn't say anything about "making it out of pre-kindegarten. You said. "obviously skipped rhetoric in pre-kindergarden.' It's ridiculous on its face. i called you on it. Now you try to to imply a quote or thought different than your original. It's Fox News 101 on your part. You should be better than that, but you're not. 108. Jackson:
“Maybe I’m misremembering, but I’m not seeing the Mark Foley/Roman Polanski parallel. ”

Le me help you out there. Both enticed minors to have sex, a felony. Polanski admitted he actually had sex. Foley didn’t admit it.

108. Ginnie . . . Aren’t you supposed to take responsibility for your words? You didn’t say anything about “making it out of pre-kindegarten. You said. “obviously skipped rhetoric in pre-kindergarden.’ It’s ridiculous on its face. i called you on it. Now you try to to imply a quote or thought different than your original. It’s Fox News 101 on your part. You should be better than that, but you’re not.

]]> By: ginnie http://pjmedia.com/blog/sorry-leftism-you-dont-get-to-disown-the-polanski-list/#comment-413649 ginnie Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:14:35 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=68422#comment-413649 now and then seriously, did you make it out of pre-kindergarden? now and then

seriously, did you make it out of pre-kindergarden?

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