Fresh-Brewed Moral Relativism To Start Your Day

In his post, This is What Mob Rule Looks Like... (a shorter cutnpaste of Malkins's This is what mob rule looks like (memeorandum) post, by the by), Dr Douglas brings us back to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when liberal college kids shouted & rushed the stage, effectively stopping Minuteman founder, Jim Gilchrist, from speaking at Columbia University. (Malkin-tent's post--or "posts," another one being Tea Party-bashers gone wild (memeorandum)--offer several other examples of liberals behaving badly.)

The message is, "What we're doing isn't thuggery and hooliganism; THIS is thuggery & hooliganism.", as though not being as bad as somebody else when you misbehave means you didn't really misbehave, at all. It's a combination of "He hit me first, and way harder," and "But, all the other guys were goin' in a-swimmin', ma..."

Ahhh... I love the smell of moral relativism in the morning...

Yes, ol' Jim was treated poorly. But that doesn't make shouting down/shutting down the town halls of congressmen & women you don't agree with any more ethical, even if, relatively speaking, you're more polite about it than the college kids who accosted Mr Gilchrist.

Perhaps what we need are videos of town halls / speeches where the person at the microphone isn't shouted down, just to see how the tea-party - town hall mobbery appears, relative to them... I mean, if that's what it takes...

Here's one at random, given in front of college students. Notice how he's not interrupted or shouted down by anyone:



Here's one with a partisan speaker, and an audience full of Republicans--perhaps including people who are tea-partying today. Again, no yelling, no rude interruptions, no chanting...:



Compared to these town hall /speech audiences, the teabaggers showing up at town hall meetings across the country sure look pretty thuggish, huh?

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Besides... Wouldn't repeatedly interrupting a guest speaker at a public event be considered disorderly conduct? I'm just sayin'...