‘How Dare You Quote Me, Haters?!’

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There is a phenomenon on the Left — especially among academics and other “intellectual” types, including feminists — where they become so used to living within cocoons of like-minded sympathizers that they don’t realize how weird their ideas seem to normal people. And so, when somebody outside the cocoon takes notice and quotes their deranged gibberish, these people claim victimhood: “Those right-wing [sexists, homophobes, racists, Koch-funded Rethuglicans, whatever] are [harassing, libeling, slut-shaming, whatever] me!“

You can ask Jeanette Runyon how she has actually been reported to the police for the alleged crime of quoting some of the “Free Kate” weirdos who want to legalize sex with 14-year-olds.

See, the Left has spent so long preaching the rhetoric of “rights” that some of them have begun to believe their own propaganda, so that merely disagreeing with them makes you a criminal.

Feminists are absolutely the worst about this. When I reported rather frankly about the craziness of “SlutWalk DC,” it  spurred a berserk reaction that included not only the accusation that I was a misogynist (yawn) but also variations of the claim that my reporting and commentary constituted harassment, a sort of word-rape that traumatized the helpless victims of my hate-blogging.

Only within the progressive cocoon do people think this way, so you will not be surprised to learn about Gish Jen, a novelist who wrote a column for the Boston Globe that treated the Boston Marathon bombers as if they were victims of intolerance:

It’s hard not to recall these things and wonder: Did we fail the Tsarnaevs somehow? It’s not clear that we did. And yet for people who knew Dzhokhar especially, who had seen him at school, who had studied and partied and played sports with him, the lurking fear has been that we failed to truly open our hearts, that we accepted him, but only up to a point.

Of course: People who commit heinous crimes against the innocent can’t be held responsible for their acts. Blame society!

And when people who disagreed with Gish Jen quoted her?

Yeah, she’s a victim who was hatefully quoted by haters.

 

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  2. In fairness, how will they get to deploy the “out of context” defense, unless they’re actually quoted. They should be thanking us for allowing them to discuss nuances our puny brains are too feeble to grasp.

    Like those contained in “if you like your insurance, you can keep it. Period.”

  6. What is it about the word “public,” which these people do not understand? One would think the correlation between “posting goofy crap on the internet” and supreme mockery would be immediately apparent to these astrophysicists, but I suppose they’re too busy parsing the words “minors cannot consent” to bother to contemplate that connection.

  8. And whatever you don’t ever mention that it might not be a good thing for a woman to get falling down drunk she opens herself up to becoming a rape statistic These delicate feminists had can’t handle the truth

  10. This explains Jay Carney’s outsized reaction to reporters the other day. What more isolationist cocoon is there than this White House?

  11. What is funny is I have no problem with them reading my time line in fact my Facebook page is also wide open anyone can read and post on it.

  12. They simply cannot tolerate any opinion other than their own, and in this context, Jeanette is an evil hater that opposes their efforts to legalize adult-minor sex. So, they have to attack her, and claim to be the victim.

  14. I love the fact Jen complains about being quoted after publishing in a newspaper. Why would anyone invade her privacy by reading such an article?

    The quoting I saw was NOT “out of context.” I have heard some leftists claim you had to read their entire articles to understand what they are saying. It’s nonsense. She said what she said.

    Notably, she lives in an affluent area with no dirty immigrants near her, so of course her “we” actually means “you lower class people who live near these immigrants,” and doesn’t include her. Typical leftist pseudo-academic.

  16. “The good man out of the good treasure of his heart
    brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth what is evil; for his mouth speaks from that which fills his heart.”

    Luke 6

    “I tell you that on the Day of Judgment people will have to account for every careless word they speak. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

    Matthew 12:36-37

    These people mean what they say and don’t mind saying it but each time they’re quoted, some still-operative component of their consciences reminds them that every word a man speaks will someday be held in Judgment. So to be quoted – to see the evidence of one’s heart’s wickedness splashed publicly across thousands of screens, and to know others see it for what it is – reminds one that God sees it to, and already had. It causes self-conviction and dread of the terror of the Lord and of the Judgment that is coming soon at His hand.

  17. You can ask Jeanette Runyon how she has actually been reported to the police for the alleged crime of quoting some of the “Free Kate” weirdos who want to legalize sex with 14-year-olds.

    See, the Left has spent so long preaching the rhetoric of “rights” that some of them have begun to believe their own propaganda, so that merely disagreeing with them makes you a criminal.
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    What was the report to the police of? And what legal action is available to her in such a case? Or can people just go reporting others to the police and there is nothing anyone can do?

  18. Of course: People who commit heinous crimes against the innocent can’t be held responsible for their acts. Blame society!

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    Well, I tend to blame both when there is reason to. One doesn’t rule out the other. In this case, it seems the younger brother was at least somewhat integrated, and it was the older brother that was going off the rails. Alienation is a very serious factor in many crimes. So I think not only asking the question is reasonable, but it is necessary.

    I didn’t get the impression this was a crime fueled by intolerance, although the murder of the big brother’s friend by the FBI during his questioning after the bombing raises very serious questions in that respect.

    My impression is that if it weren’t for the older brother, little brother would have never gotten involved in anything. This was a broken family, and little brother much needed a father (or substitute). Big brother was what he had in that respect. And that’s who he followed, with tragic results. It’s pretty much the same dynamics we see with kids getting involved in gangs, because it’s the only “family” structure they have available to them. They follow the leader, the makeshift parent/older brother figure, and “bigger man” figure – no matter how bad he is.

  21. It’s not his fault that he won’t behave.
    Society’s made him go astray.
    Perhaps if we’re nice, he’ll go away.
    Perhaps he’ll go away…?

  22. Telling each other they’re “monitoring” an “evildoer” lets these basement boletes cling to the illusion they’re actually doing something down there…

  23. You can report anyone to the police you want. If iit s not an actual crime it’s meaningless, like the Alex Jones listener who calls the cops to report the mindrays penetrating his foil hat.

    If you claim a specific claim has been committed when it hasn’t, and the cops actually act on that, you could be charged with filing a false police report. imIf the cops give a rat’s ass or you really irritate them.

    Of course, claim the right crime has been committed and you could get someone killed, e.g. ‘swatting’.

  24. It is about time you stopped blaming criminals for their behavior. Most of them were probably ‘born that way’ and didn’t choose to be criminals. After all, when did you choose to be a law abiding citizen? (in answering I want a specific date and time please)

    While we’re at it, we must stop the use of stigmatizing terms such as crime and criminal. That’s just hate speech.

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