What happened today is perhaps a breaking point, but we must stand hard and fast to assure that we do not contribute to the kind of ignorant incivility that increasingly infects our public discourse. I can't call it over-reacting, but I will say that their have been more than a few poor choices of words here, no matter how angry anyone feels.
My own tongue is bleeding for the biting of it I am at now....
Beware that hate of hatespeech does not become hatespeech. I know this is not a diary, but people here are beginning to say things about Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman that are inappropriate at best and dangerous at the worst. Understandably many are upset and rightly so, but with freedom comes responsibility and part of the responsibility is to be aware that what WE say has consequences, too. We must avoid becoming the ignorance and hate we abhor. I urge people here to temper their comments and focus on positions and not personalities.