On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
Again - I am not Cirt, and I find the article reasonably balanced.
Having an article that associates someone with human waste be "reasonably balanced" is like claiming that an article about the Richard Gere gerbil rumor (as long as it stated the rumor was false) would be reasonably balanced. The association of a living person with shit is inherently unbalanced; it spreads a negative POV towards that person, no matter how many disclaimers we add saying that we don't think he's really like shit.
Well said. That's the problem.
Fred
All things considered, it's a societal problem for people to be claiming Santorum is human excrement, that women shouldn't have a right to own property or vote, that homosexuals should be beaten up or killed for being who they are, that blacks (or Latinos, or Asians, or Jews, or whoever) are less human than (whites or whomever), or that some adults advocate adult/child sexual relations.
None of the examples you cite are living people.
Fred