Fuck you Sarah Palin
It's bad enough that throughout last year you blatantly-gleefully even-incited violence against your political opponents. It's bad enough that you refuse to express the slightest contrition now that someone has done what you asked them to. But now you accuse people who call out your inflammatory rhetoric of blood libel? Fuck you.
A little history lesson for you. This is what "blood libel" means:
Blood libel (also blood accusation) refers to a false accusation or claim that religious minorities, almost always Jews, murder children to use their blood in certain aspects of their religious rituals and holidays. Historically, these claims have-alongside those of well poisoning and host desecration-been a major theme in European persecution of Jews.
The libels typically allege that Jews require human blood for the baking of matzos for Passover. The accusations often assert that the blood of Christian children is especially coveted, and historically blood libel claims have often been made to account for otherwise unexplained deaths of children. In some cases, the alleged victim of human sacrifice has become venerated as a martyr, a holy figure around whom a martyr cult might arise. A few of these have been even canonized as saints. [from Wikipedia: Blood Libel]
To say someone is committing blood libel in response to-demonstrably true-accusations that you fanned the flames of eliminationist political rhetoric in a way that was irresponsible and dangerous is to compare yourself my ancestors who were routinely massacred because of the utterly grotesque-and demonstrably untrue-crimes they were accused of.
For trampling on the memory of people who had no power, did nothing wrong and suffered real material harm anyway, fuck you, Sarah Palin.
A little history lesson for you. This is what "blood libel" means:
Blood libel (also blood accusation) refers to a false accusation or claim that religious minorities, almost always Jews, murder children to use their blood in certain aspects of their religious rituals and holidays. Historically, these claims have-alongside those of well poisoning and host desecration-been a major theme in European persecution of Jews.
The libels typically allege that Jews require human blood for the baking of matzos for Passover. The accusations often assert that the blood of Christian children is especially coveted, and historically blood libel claims have often been made to account for otherwise unexplained deaths of children. In some cases, the alleged victim of human sacrifice has become venerated as a martyr, a holy figure around whom a martyr cult might arise. A few of these have been even canonized as saints. [from Wikipedia: Blood Libel]
To say someone is committing blood libel in response to-demonstrably true-accusations that you fanned the flames of eliminationist political rhetoric in a way that was irresponsible and dangerous is to compare yourself my ancestors who were routinely massacred because of the utterly grotesque-and demonstrably untrue-crimes they were accused of.
For trampling on the memory of people who had no power, did nothing wrong and suffered real material harm anyway, fuck you, Sarah Palin.