When does dissent become hatred?

Question

People all the time say, dissent is patriotic, and if kept in proportion it is. But some of the filth that comes out of peoples mouths cant possibly be dissent.

*By kept in proportion means not being blown out of porportion:
A president unmaliciously insults a person, dissent would be that he needs to say hes sorry. Hatred, hes a horrible racist president and deserves to be impeached.

Lets see how many people actually paid attention in school; unmaliciously

Answer 1

I agree. While the term "dissent is the highest form of patriotism" is true reletave for what you are fighting for. If the president took all the power and then rounded people up in detention facilities than yes dissent is a good thing. If the police start selling drugs to suppliment the money lost to illegal immegrants than dissent is rational.
But when our soil is attacked and our president does his best to protect us by going to war with the enemy, even though we know bush isnt the sharpest pencil and neither are a lot of his council but he has been commisioned with being President by the people of the US and "dissenting" too much such as routing for hezbollah "freedom fighters" and screaming impeachment is actually in my opinion a form of terrorism and a complete lack of anything traditionally known as patroitic or American.
Sometimes I think the liberals fight just to fight, at least the conservatives fight to secure america and its citizens.

Answer 2

For Leftists,the definition depends on who is being criticized.When they called Bush a Chimp,berated him for mispronouncing a word nearly 50% of the English speaking world mispronounces,called him a Terrorist,wished openly that he would be assassinated,etc that was fine by them. But any dissent against Comrade 0bama is Hatred,Racism,Anti-American,etc.Mainly because they want all dissent silenced. This is a dream moment for the Socialists of the World.A moment when the Congress and White House is run by the Far Left,where America might finally become what they want,a Socialist State.They don't want that stopped,and all who oppose it must be silenced. RWE

Answer 3

When has dissent ever become a visible threat to our democracy like some in the Bush administration believe it to be?

Or do you personally believe that we should all fall into lock step behind our moron for President, and keep our collective mouths shut?

Answer 4

It's varying degrees between disagreement and spiteful loathing, with disagreement being on the dissent end and spiteful loathing being on the imbalanced end. To say that someone's level of dissent is hateful and repulsive should not automatically become synonymous with saying someone should be silenced. One doesn't counter or balance such biased opposition with an equally imbalanced argument but rather with balanced arguments leaning towards consensus.

references:

dissent (n) Synonyms: opposition, disagreement, dissension, discord, rebellion, conflict, difference
Antonym: consent

malicious (adj) Synonyms: hateful, spiteful, malevolent, mean, nasty, cruel, wicked, mischievous, evil
Antonym: kind

hate (n) Synonyms: hatred, abhorrence, detestation, odium, revulsion, disgust, dislike, animosity, aversion, distaste, loathing
Antonym: love

proportionate (adj) Synonyms: balanced, proportional, comparable, equal, equivalent

note the antonym would be disproportionate or imbalanced.

Answer 5

Dissent is patriotic, yes. Without it democracy doesn't exist. However, as you point out when dissent is expressed in a hateful way it should not be tolerated. Politicians usually are allowed more criticism and harsher criticism than most of us would tolerate. One should criticize policy and state why they disagree with someone's ideas but name calling is childish and accomplishes nothing.

Presidents are humans and by the fact that they talk alot in their job they will say things they shouldent. When that happens they shoudl apologise. If he makes racist remarks, especially when it isn't a slip of the tongue, he needs to resign.

I don't get your reference to paying attention in school.

Answer 6

Well, if you consider that Bush has suspended the writ of habeus corpus, ie, he has claimed the right to disappear any of us, you might understand that this provokes strong feelings. If you don't believe Habeus Corpus has been suspended, you'll easily find Gonzales recently defended this in front of the senate. Bush has humiliated America in front of the whole world, Bush has caused the deaths of tens of thousands of innocents - blood on our hands - Bush has caused hundreds of innocent people to be tortured - dozens tortured to death. He let New Orleans drown. He's allowed more than 8 billion dollars in hundred dollar bills to disappear in Iraq!

If this doesn't make a person feel strongly about Bush, that person is emotionally dead inside.

Answer 7

Dissent being portrayed as hate is the Repuglican spin on the issue. And as far as malicious posts filled with hate, the conservatives win hands down. They had so much practise with Clinton but Bush is great fodder for the Dems.

Answer 8

Dissent becomes hatred , when you dissent is filled with contempt.This applies to most liberals in congress.

Answer 9

There is a difference between sharing one's view and attacking another person for their view or vilifying them for other reasons.

Answer 10

Since Bush became president.