Disturbing Images as Political Leverage
By ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
June 5, 2009 1:42am CST
Anti war activists show pictures and video of bloody bodies and flag draped coffins to demonstrate their points. PETA shows pictures and videos documenting animal cruelty. They even attack people wearing fur with the blood (or other noxious red liquids) of animals as a means of protest. Driver's ed classes show movies of teenagers getting mangled in car accidents. People with debilitating diseases openly display the outward signs of their infirmities to encourage donations or government grants for their cause.
The left seems not only ok with these actions, but support is as free speech and legitimate activism.
But let a person show an aborted fetus and all the hype about free speech and legitimate activism goes out the window.
3 responses
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
5 Jun 09
So, only "the left" are Pro-Chioce? This compartmentalization of Americans into only two politically defined groups...the right and the left...in every circumstance is unrealistic and incorrect.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
5 Jun 09
Ok, why is it that everyone seems to have the "right" to use disturbing images except anti abortion activists?
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
5 Jun 09
Are you saying that PETA doesn't catch a lot of flack for many of their campaigns? That anti-animal testing activists don't as well? Disturbing images are always going to be objected to by *someone* but my point is that it's not always or only "the left" objecting to graphic anti-abortion imagery.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
5 Jun 09
They don't have court orders against them, in fact their rights are protected.. unlike the rights of anti abortion activists.
Quit acting like a total idiot.
@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
5 Jun 09
So...I'm an endangered species of activist that believes that it's wrong to use "scare tactics"?
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@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
5 Jun 09
All forms of fantacism, for a cause or not, bothers meh.
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@spicysweetie21 (2573)
• United States
5 Jun 09
The one thing about your post that rubs me the wrong way is that you say "the left" like all left wingers feel that way, im totally against late term or partial birth, and i have changed my view on the disclaimer of "unless its because the mothers life is in danger", i don't think that really happens very often at all....but i am Pro-Choice, but i don't have a problem with pro-lifers showing those pictures, its their right,the only thing i don't like it when they demonstrate where children might be able to see the images, but thats not just for that, i am a animal activist and think that the PETA videos are informative and i wish more people would watch the videos, they don't have to join PETA or be an extremist,but it still is important for people to see the cruelty happening to animals around the world, but i would never want my niece or any other young child to see one of those videos because it is far too graphic,....my whole point its not always the left pitted against the right
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