Where are the Conservative voices?

1. Have to be talking about everyone from Sarah Palin's entire religion or ethnic group (not just a single public figure)

but right now the only target where such abuse is tolerated is Muslims.

Most of the posters like you mention only come here for attention. IMHO.

Your opinions do not appear to coincide with reality.

If you you say that Jews should be kept out of the country
only because they are Jewish, then it is wrong.

How bad does it have to GET before we begin thinking defensively???

There is nothing, right now, that comparable to the defamation against Muslims. Other groups, particularly Jews, have faced similar defamation, in the past, but right now the only target where such abuse is tolerated is Muslims.

So in other words, saying hateful, offensive and derogatory comments is OK, unless Muslims are the target, then its wrong.
Is that your position?

Right now, these bigoted attacks against Muslims are somehow more acceptable than attacks against any other religion.

oralloy wrote:

Your opinions do not appear to coincide with reality.

Then why do you keep poking me for a response?

Max -- I'm guessing this thread didn't go the way you wanted.

That is why these jokers are often not confronted by Liberals or reasonable Conservatives. It only gives them an audience.

There are many conservatives here that I respond to and respect, just not the nut jobs.

I'm sure several irrational posts will follow to demonstrate why.

If you are a Conservative with a sense of decency, where are you to speak up against hate speech from your own side? Even if you don't have a sense of decency, can't you see that your tacit approval of, or even defense of, this clearly bigoted behavior fro people on your own side are the reason you have the reputation you do?

I didn't answer your original question because Joefromchicago had already said almost anything I would have said, had I answered it. But your questions presume a fact that apparently hasn't been questioned yet, so I'll take that one.

Your questions presume that when correspondents believe the same things, they thereby form some sort of club, whose members somehow become responsible for each other's transgressions. I disagree. Back in my libertarian days for example, I saw plenty of self-identified libertarians say stupid and agitated things on A2K. I never considered it my job to correct them, let alone face them down. That's because I'm neither a joiner of clubs nor an arbiter of what's socially acceptable to them. I am on A2K to speak for myself, and that's it.

Therefore, I suggest you consider that individual A2K conservatives might, likewise, speak for themselves only. Your demand that they adopt club rules you can accept, and then enforce them against one another, is unreasonable if there is no club. And even if there is, you aren't in it; you have no standing to move that it amend rules or censure members.

Right again Frank.