ThaReetLad's Journal: Ann Coulter: nutter

The Independent newspaper has an interview with Ann Coulter in which she says that "All terrorists are Muslims", obviously ignoring the IRA, ULA, UFF, Timothy McVeigh, the Washington sniper, the Unabomber, the Red army faction and whoever was responsible for the Anthrax attacks. Anyway, the thing that really struck me was the rampant moral relativism that she spouts as assertions, and her use of the straw man argument when saying that because the interviewer complained about her over generalisation, she responded by claiming that the interviewer was implying that her over generalisation was morally worse than 9/11.

She seems to be able to constantly ignore her blatant hypocrisy in both claiming the America is a role model for the world, espousing ideals of equality, liberty, freedom and a Christian moral code, while at the same time saying that America needn't hold itself to those ideals because its actions are justified because of the attacks and threats on it. She claims that America has the right and justification to act in whatever way it pleases because "they" did something worse first.

I fail to see how a claim of moral superiority can be supported while your actions are guided by the perceived principles of your enemy rather than by upholding your own.

I also urge you to read an article named Reflections on Kant and Moral Equivalence by Michael Newmann on a similar theme.

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[ThaReetLad]

Ann Coulter: The blonde assassin
Does Ann Coulter really believe the outrageous things she says? To the pin-up pundit of the American right, liberals are fascists - and all terrorists are Muslims. Sholto Byrnes runs for cover
16 August 2004

Meet Ann Coulter. In her opinion, "liberals are racists", the French are "a bunch of faggots", only property owners should be allowed to vote, and anyone who disagrees with her is a "fatuous idiot" or "evil". In liberal Europe, such propositions are seldom aired, even in t

Scary stuff ...

[tomhudson]

The only way to deal with these nutcases is to poke fun at them. For example ...

"To get into university without achievement or grades, you wanna have a name like Shafiqua, Jeffrika or Leroy," says Ann,

I would add, to get out of university without achievment or grades, you wanna have a name like Bush...

Re:Scary stuff ...

[ThaReetLad]

Well, I think anyone can get out of university without achievement or grades. Just spend all the time drinking and doing drugs. If you want to do all that and still end up being in charge of an oil company, a name like Bush will help tremendously.