In Follow Up to My Greydanus Post

'[I]t's not making fun of disabilities that is the problem, but who is doing the making fun of that is the problem.' Mr Griffey points out the utter hypocrisy of the Left.

From Daffey Thoughts

By David Griffey 

I was sent this:

Here's the thing. I don't like the humor. I don't like making fun of someone - and that's what it's doing - for something they can't help. I know, he didn't have to run for office knowing full well the problems involved. And that decision to push forward in the campaign despite the high likelihood of what we've seen happen is a fair debate. I also know that it is 100% impossible to have a fair debate with progressives. Even if you tried to lay it out in the most respectable manner, for daring to point out the obvious you'd be accused of hating disabled people or wanting them killed.

Nonetheless, I say we should do what Michelle Obama only spoke of doing, and that's take the higher ground. Especially since, as Christians, that's part and parcel of the whole Jesus game. Plus, it does no good to lower ourselves to their standards. One, we don't have the institutions behind us to cover our tracks. And two, we lose any moral high ground since actually having consistent morals is supposed to be one of our selling points. It certainly separates us from the Left's here today, gone yesterday approach to morals.

With that said, once again we see Greydanus's slip into the cesspool of leftwing rhetorical tricks. Having spent my life listening to liberals mock and deride elderly Republicans, mock their misfortunes, and sometimes even mock them for their own handicaps (I recall George Clooney once mocking Charlton Heston's Alzheimer's - something I am no fan of at all), it's the height of disingenuousness to make such a partisan swipe. It suggests strongly that it's not making fun of disabilities that is the problem, but who is doing the making fun of that is the problem.

Had he simply called this out and said it was in bad taste, then no problem. I would agree. But he then pulls a favorite tactic of the Left of using a single event to tarnish the entire pool of political opponents. Perhaps he is so deeply lazy into his partisanship that he didn't bother to see if such rhetoric has been employed by his allies on the Left. To be honest he would have to have lived in a hole for these last several decades to miss it.

Otherwise, he knows it's true and doesn't care because it's his side doing it. Or he knows it's true and, like so many in our tutorial class today, is banking on his readers' own lazy ignorance so as not to be called out. In any event, it's once again a bad look from someone who used to be one of the good guys.