When It Comes To Hate-Speech And Violence, Liberals Rule

For some strange reason liberals are identifying all contrary opinions as hateful regardless of the words actually used. I'm always surprised when I hear from my Democrat sister in California that she thinks I should tone down the anger in my columns. I've reread my pieces and see only the explanations of my viewpoint. I do not name-call or use derogatory language yet she reacts as if I do. Is it possible to erroneously read emotions that simply aren't there if the reader is expecting them to be?

I found this same phenomenon when I received an e-mail from a New York literary agent commenting that he found my book proposal "a manifesto of innuendo, belief and hate for those you do not agree with." He then added, "There is the Rush way and then there is the George Will way."

After searching in vain for evidence of hate speech in my book proposal, I came to realize that the agent was projecting his own disdain for the "right wing" and assuming that I was therefore a Rush Limbaugh devotee.

I had written that I had observed the devastating impact of social programs that had destroyed the families in my neighborhood of Spanish Harlem by effectively removing the man from the households. I wrote from a personal perspective that this wealthy agent with a Hollywood background probably found hard to believe. I must, therefore, he concluded be a dittohead and an anti-intellectual unlike the revered Mr. Will.

I recall reading an interview with best-selling author Vince Flynn in the New Individualist magazine in which he related that his first book was rejected by liberal New York and Los Angeles publishers. He ended up self-publishing what became a monstrous best seller that was eventually picked up by a Midwest publisher. No doubt those elite publishers read his right-wing novel as full of hate instead of being a pro-American action tome. Liberals tend to project their own hostile reactions to different points of view or am I being hateful?

When it comes to hate speech and violence, liberals rule the roost but are the quickest to accuse conservatives of their own anarchic tactics. Almost immediately after the so-called health-care reform bill passed, bricks were thrown through the congressional office windows of Democrat politicians. The FBI was investigating death threats against legislators allegedly made by angry opponents to the bill. Mind that word "allegedly."

A black conservative, Kevin Jackson, (theblacksphere.net) was interviewed by MSNBC's David Shuster who asked him what he thought of this development. Mr. Jackson wisely asked, "Who threw the bricks?" and correctly insisted that there was no proof that Republicans or party activists had thrown the bricks. Mr. Shuster looked incredulous and asked if Mr. Jackson was asserting that Democrats had staged the destruction of their own property. Mr. Jackson said he'd respond when Mr. Shuster had concrete evidence of who threw the rocks. Mr. Shuster then said that not all protesters are racists but that there was a racist fringe to the tea parties. Mr. Jackson answered, "I've yet to see a black man lynched at a tea party but I do know that the Democrat Party has lynched black people and if you want to make that equivalency then let's talk about that a bit." That was the end of the interview.

If Mr. Shuster had done his homework, he wouldn't have sounded so incredulous because last summer a Democrat operative, Maurice Schwenkler, was arrested for vandalizing the state Democrat Party headquarters in Denver, Colorado. Naturally, anti-Obama conservatives were first blamed, but isn't that the motive for many of these despicable acts: planting red herrings?

Violence toward outspoken conservatives by liberal thugs is much more common but not widely publicized. Why was Sarah Palin's church in Wasilla, Alaska, set on fire with a church group still inside? Republican Gov. Rick Perry saw the Texas state mansion firebombed and destroyed in June 2008. Californians who were for Proposition 8 were viciously targeted for assault by militant gay rights advocates. One man in Modesto Calif., Jose Nunez, 37, was brutally assaulted outside his church where he was passing out "Vote Yes on Prop 8" stickers.

His assailant grabbed his signs and yelled at Mr. Nunez, "What do you have against gays?" He then punched him in the eye and Mr. Nunez was rushed to the hospital where he received 16 stitches under his eye.

A pastor's car was shot up because he supported a ban on gay marriage.

Of course when Rep. Eric Cantor (R.-Virginia) reported that his office had been struck by gunfire, he was branded by the leftist blogs as a phony deceitful liar because police had ruled the incident the result of random gunfire. So it's perfectly all right for Democrat leaders to make unsubstantiated charges against conservatives but assaults on Republicans are just "random."

Conservatives such as Ann Coulter can have her free speech rights denied when she dares to speak at Marxist-dominated colleges in Canada and here in the States. She can have pies hurled at her and that apparently is fine with the media critics who twist her sardonic repartee into messages of hatred. Since college students no longer have the capacity to divine the presence of satire, they're easily roused to rage. Uh, uh, was that sentence hateful? It wasn't meant to be but I did mean it to be critical.

In the past 11 years of writing op-ed columns from a conservative pro-life perspective, I've received mail that is so vile that when I submitted some to a magazine relating my experiences after criticizing jihadists, I was told it was too strong for their readers. I've been called a bigot, a homophobe, and every obscene female name in the vernacular. Someone even set up a Face Book page branding me a bigot.

It is, however, par for the course, and while I would dearly love to debate my critics on the basis of what I actually wrote, that is not the modus operandi of the liberal psyche. Lib talker Mike Malloy just called for the deaths of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Bill O'Reilly, accusing them of inciting hatred. Ironic, isn't it?

I accept that true hate mongers like Malloy, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Rosie O'Donnell and Sean Penn can wish evil and death on those with opposing views, but it is far more distressing to hear the laughter and cheering on by their gullible audiences.

Is calling someone gullible hateful? Then I plead guilty.

Alicia Colon resides in New York City and can be reached at aliciav.colon@gmail.com and at www.aliciacolon.com