The Winkest Link

By Wink

Can we stop with the name-calling already? This is seventh-grade stuff…

On ‘Fox and Friends’ Hank Williams Jr. recently called President Obama ‘Hitler.’

Really Hank, Hitler? Do you know who Hitler was? What he did?

Pull your head out.

You have the right to free speech, Hank. You won’t go to jail for saying ‘Obama is Hitler.’ You have to understand, though, that people will see you for the moron you obviously are.

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Similarly, it was recently discovered that, long ago, Texas governor Rick Perry leased a hunting ranch with a racist name…a very racist name.

There is no other indication, anywhere, that Rick Perry is racist. People who have known him a very long time, even political opponents, say they have never seen Perry give any racist views.

It is an overreach, and morally wrong, to try to paint him that way.

There are plenty of racists out there, and racism is alive and strong, but we can’t be flippant about branding people that way. The charge is significant enough that you really need to gather a lot of facts before you apply the ‘racist’ label.

‘Chicken-Little’-type idiots do it regularly, which devalues the term. We need to preserve the term ‘racist’ and be willing to apply it for the truly despicable, not just as a ‘close enough’ moniker for those we happen to disagree with politically.

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C’mon people, stop throwing around these names. Hitler was a horrendous monster. His actions led to tens of millions of deaths. Feel free to compare Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot to Hitler. Those are apt, but precious few people alive today would fall into that category…

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