Denver Post Runs OpEd Calling for Trump's Execution

[Irving]

Agreed. I don't think a true conservative has anything in common (in terms of the direction in which the country is taken) with a true progressive.

Even on other levels...conservatives are generally of the live and let live mentality. Progressives are of the live like I do, or how I want you to, or else I will attempt to force you to through one means or another, mentality.

I don't think this is correct at all, but your belief isn't necessarily an issue with your thinking so much as it is a result of the digital world in which we live today. I'll expand later when I'm not at a birthday party.

[izzy]

It seems like they don't teach civics in public schools anymore.

Now that you mention it I don't recall taking any class called civics. Though I guess you could say I had a bit of an alternative education.

[rondog]

It seems like they don't teach civics in public schools anymore.

Not since the 60's.

[Aloha_Shooter]

People on here say that Hillary and Barrack should be hanged with pretty regular frequency. Would you say that such lamentations make it equally difficult for left and right to peacefully coexist in America?

I've suggested they both wear orange jumpsuits for a fair number of years but have never suggested execution. For one thing, the last thing we need is to deify Obama by making him a martyr. A living symbol of the wages of corruption would be great (but never happen).

[Bailey Guns]

Yeah, I don't recall anyone saying they should be hanged, either. But I haven't read every single post ever made here, nor do I recall every one I've read.

[Irving]

I've suggested they both wear orange jumpsuits for a fair number of years but have never suggested execution. For one thing, the last thing we need is to deify Obama by making him a martyr. A living symbol of the wages of corruption would be great (but never happen).

Yeah, I don't recall anyone saying they should be hanged, either. But I haven't read every single post ever made here, nor do I recall every one I've read.

Don't ask me to find specific posts, because who knows how many hundreds of threads I'd have to look through. Also, if I found one, I wouldn't want to draw attention to anyone in particular like they were the only one, because they weren't. I'm not trying to say that people shouldn't hold that opinion either, only that it is definitely not exclusive to the other side.

[Bailey Guns]

I completely agree that hatred and irrational behavior is not exclusive to one side. But it's far, far less common, especially coming from more prominent figures on the right than it is the left. That's how I see it anyway. On the other hand, ignorance and stupidity know no political bounds.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Don't ask me to find specific posts, because who knows how many hundreds of threads I'd have to look through. Also, if I found one, I wouldn't want to draw attention to anyone in particular like they were the only one, because they weren't. I'm not trying to say that people shouldn't hold that opinion either, only that it is definitely not exclusive to the other side.

Well, you made a very specific allegation WRT people on this board, one that contradicts my memory (although I have not read every post on this board, far from it). That's a Chris Cuomo-esque or Chris Matthews-ish behavior, alleging something vile on the part of people who oppose Obama or Clinton without any documented support. I'm sure that's not your intent but it's the way it comes across.

[Irving]

I guess I don't see what the problem is. If you did see a post like that, would you say anything? Usually no one does, so they aren't memorable, in addition to people generally having a blind spot to people whom are "on thier side" I'm not surprised most are drawing a blank.

[Skip]

I've used Advanced Search and can't find anyone here suggesting Obama be hanged. I used the phrase "Obama" and "hang" also "Obama" and "execute" Got a lot of noise. Then I used "Obama hang" and got nothing. Then I used "Obama should be hang" and got...

The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search

What I did see in the returns was a lot of posts using the word Obama with a slew of criminals that posters said should be hanged; child abusers, murdering illegals, etc... And a quote about how the Continental Congress would hang together during the Revolutionary War.

I could spend all day looking!

But this board is not a newspaper and the posters here are not "journalists" informing the public. The comments here are not published and delivered physical/digitally to millions of homes (I honesty don't know what the Compost's circulation/view numbers are these days). That OpEd was published by the editor. It wasn't just the echo chamber in some crazy cat lady's head. It was the Denver Post!

Editors get all sorts of letters from crazies, every day, for over a century. They choose what to publish (responsibility).

If you want to find parity, you should search for the paper that published an OpEd suggesting Obama be executed. I have tried that as well and I can find all sorts of reporting of people hanging effigies and the like but no paper actually publishing that opinion.