This seems like a really good analogy - from a comment on Just One Minute
The only argument conservatives have made, or can make, against the "victory" mosque is that it is politically incorrect, in the literal sense.
Posted by: bunkerbuster | August 15, 2010 at 10:40 AM
Let's see, over and over again people have made the point that we don't dispute the right of building the "Cordoba House" there, we dispute the propriety of it.
The left has used that same basic arugment relentlessly over the past several decades to make their arguments on issues. Now that they have established it as a legitimate reason to oppose action, they suddently find it terrible when it is mobilised against a project they embrace.
The left has said relentlessly that the Confederate battel flag must be expunged from public view because it is a hurtful symbol to many in society. Mind you, there were no laws being broken in it's display, but it was a deliberate provocation, an act of one group declaring their dominance over others.
And yet, when the exact same point is made about "Cordoba House", the left brushes it asside as if it is not only an irrelivent argument, but actually a disingenuous one. They tell us with confidence that this isn't about sensitivity at all, it is about 'stripping a despised minority of their constitutional rights!!!'
The only argument conservatives have made, or can make, against the "victory" mosque is that it is politically incorrect, in the literal sense.
Posted by: bunkerbuster | August 15, 2010 at 10:40 AM
Let's see, over and over again people have made the point that we don't dispute the right of building the "Cordoba House" there, we dispute the propriety of it.
The left has used that same basic arugment relentlessly over the past several decades to make their arguments on issues. Now that they have established it as a legitimate reason to oppose action, they suddently find it terrible when it is mobilised against a project they embrace.
The left has said relentlessly that the Confederate battel flag must be expunged from public view because it is a hurtful symbol to many in society. Mind you, there were no laws being broken in it's display, but it was a deliberate provocation, an act of one group declaring their dominance over others.
And yet, when the exact same point is made about "Cordoba House", the left brushes it asside as if it is not only an irrelivent argument, but actually a disingenuous one. They tell us with confidence that this isn't about sensitivity at all, it is about 'stripping a despised minority of their constitutional rights!!!'