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This is an odd bit of false equivalence. Santorum got what he had coming, because he's a galactic-scale asshole. Making up a funny joke about an ignorant reactionary seeking to impose theocracy in America makes perfect sense when that person has been elevated to a position of rare power.

On the other hand making up a name for people who fail to hate women doesn't have quite the same logic.

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The logic may well be the same. The moral axioms on which that logic applies obviously differs between the people who support one and oppose the other and those who either see them as equivalent or who have the reverse support/oppose position.

I can't tell what you meant.

Mocking a powerful politician is fair game. Indeed, mocking the powerful is a necessary function in a republic or democracy, and should be practiced in direct proportion to the hypocrisy openly demonstrated by the target.

Mocking random members of the public (calling them cucks or faggots in threads on reddit) serves no function.

That was exactly the original point. The article is weasely in its cherry-picking of examples. The veneer of civility is very thin.

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