Phyllis Schlafly dead at 92

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(09-06-2016, 01:27 PM)Rotobeast Wrote: Why do people feel the need to belittle the recently deceased ?
I know you are condemning the actions and not the person, but it's just something I always seem to have trouble with.

Honestly, I didn't even know who this lady was.

There are people I've disliked who have passed, but I don't think I've ever felt compelled to dance on their grave.
I suppose that maybe I'm different in thinking there is good in everyone, somewhere and they very well could have done enough good in their life to atone for the bad.




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I am honestly surprised you don't know who she was. You must be much younger than I thought or only recently tuned into politics. She was sort of a pioneer voice screaming into the void before we could all do it on the internet, LOL.

She was sort of Hillary before Hillary - an outspoken woman when women were still supposed to be barefoot and pregnant, and people either loved her or hated her - although there was never a massive smear campaign to discredit her. I think she was also always just an "activist," writer and speaker, never actually working on policy or holding an office. But she was for decades a well known conservative pundit - again, before 24-7 talking heads and pundits galore. As the spotlight fragmented to take in all those other chuckleheads on both sides of the aisle she got less media attention but still was active.

The OP pointing out her death is not necessarily dancing. I mean, she was a public figure and her death is news. I think the OP probably felt the same about her yesterday as today, and stating his (accurate, btw) assessment of her career is just giving an opinion of her public life. I didn't hear clapping or high fives in the subtext. Thinking someone who died was a good person doesn't necessarily count as mourning, and thinking they were a jerk isn't necessarily desecrating their soon to be dug grave. Or so it seems to me.