Re: Jim Geraghty on "Blood Libel"

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Bruce Geerdes wrote:

>>> I dunno, in its generic sense, it does apply to blaming the right for 
>>> the shootings.
>>
>> If you consider the far right an "oppressed minority", I guess.
>
> More generic than that, as in the generic definitions of "blood" and 
> "libel".

Ah, well, the examples cited here indicate that the "generic" use of the 
term doesn't have to involve blood at all!  (Again I say: recounts??)

Which means that you have to use the term *more* carefully, not *less*, 
when actual blood *is* involved.

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