Re: Is Palin's blood libel sacred? was oh please

> That doesn't mean it is right but it does mean it isn't that unusual.

>Well, my whole point was that it was wrong, not that it was unusual, so you seem 
>to be rebutting a point that I never made.<

No, I'm suggesting that the two are intertwined; because of the commonness of it 
I am suggesting that it is reasonable to understand her words pursuant to the 
alternative definitions.  In essence you are saying she is wrong for using a 
word when it is you that doesn't understand how it was being used, or are 
forcing a definition of the word she didn't intend and the majority of people 
hearing it didn't hear.

It would be like criticizing everyone for referring to the shooting as a 
tragedy.  Yeah, technically you might be right, but you, (not you personally), 
would still be kind of a dick to be fixating on that.    



> Both Dershowitz and Krauthammer think the blood libel debate is ridiculous - 
>"it has become part of English parlance to refer to someone falsely accused."

>And yet the debate exists.  Which is all the proof you need that Palin and/or 
>her advisers should have known better.<

No, there are good faith debates and bad faith ones, this is a bad faith one, 
promulgated by those who use any excuse to attack her.  To hold her responsible 
for that is similar to holding her responsible for the shooting.  



>Unless, of course, stirring the pot was what they *wanted* to do.<

I don't think stirring the pot was the intention but I'd concede they did want 
to fight back.  I might have advised a different strategy for fighting back but 
I don't think she is wrong for fighting. 



> I think she would have been better/smarter to remain silent or just issue a 
>public statement expressing sorrow and support over the shooting.

>Actually, she did do that, within hours of the shooting happening.  It was on 
>her Facebook page, and probably elsewhere as well.<

Well that was a Facebook posting or stuff in writing.  I'm talking about a 
visual appearance, which again, is what she was being taunted for not doing.  


All that said, I think the rope a dope strategy would have been better than 
going for a knockout punch.

Mike F. 



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