Thread by @JoshuaCypess

1/ A thread of comments & observations about the death of the cackling vampire Rush Limbaugh.

My first observations in the main thread are here, but this offshoot is needed because there's been so many wise & witty things I've seen

https://twitter.com/JoshuaCypess/status/1362395861955850240?s=20

2/ First, re: those who in their wayward moral obtuseness feel we "can't speak ill of the dead." I've said that this is what abuse enablers say, but I hear that some religious traditions preach this. Oy.
So there's this:

https://twitter.com/SaneEnglish/status/1362115763537121282?s=20

& receipts:

https://twitter.com/10cities10years/status/1362094040129425413?s=20

3/ Drucker is another great wit, and this carries the proper mood

https://twitter.com/MikeDrucker/status/1362094325199495170?s=20

4/ There's definitely a Jewish Tradition angle for how to treat evil people who die: the only respect is to justice, right & wrong, and above all compassion's existence necessitates condemning cruelty

https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/1362152058061783042?s=20

5/ We're coming up on #Purim, and that's all about how to remember evil. There may be a reason, then, that I share the attitude of many other people committed to righting wrongs:

https://twitter.com/erinbiba/status/1362218638615453699

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https://twitter.com/CelticAnarchy/status/1362146676870422532

6/ Well crafted Purim callout:

https://twitter.com/Rav_Mike/status/1362125116906364928?s=20

7/ More witty responses:
a)

https://twitter.com/RealEvilkitten3/status/1362142685251837952?s=20

b)

https://twitter.com/The_Law_Boy/status/1362154162574737412?s=20

c)

https://twitter.com/DanaSchwartzzz/status/1362115402096996352?s=20

8/ A key point: liking Rush condemns you as a person. He embodied cruelty. That is supposed to repel you.

https://twitter.com/CaslerNoel/status/1362217668913340417?s=20

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https://twitter.com/IChotiner/status/1362147184079106048?s=20

9/ That's personally why I can't understand "he was funny" - that's the bleat of people who laugh along with the bully when he crushes vulnerable people.

Really, examine yourself if you laughed along with him. It's not 'humor'

https://twitter.com/fawfulfan/status/1362236012638871552?s=20

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https://twitter.com/pareene/status/1362191982999842830

10/ Instead of 'funny' the key descriptor is 'entertaining' and that is a through-line from Limbaugh to Trump (ym'sh)

https://twitter.com/Zeddary/status/1362254867503460352?s=20

and the connection between the two monsters is important to highlight

https://twitter.com/IChotiner/status/1362093698951966721?s=20

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https://twitter.com/pastpunditry/status/1362091561249554435?s=03

11/ I actually didn't know how horrible he was - my parents are liberal and if my friends listened to him, they probably knew not to play it near me.

So here he is mocking AIDS patients. WHAT?!?

https://twitter.com/snopes/status/1362139338226753540?s=20

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https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/1362101674446315531?s=20

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https://twitter.com/samthielman/status/1362117183938117640?s=20

12/ Or truly loathsome comments about African-Americans:

https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1362096410418688013?s=03

and here about abortion

https://twitter.com/TheRealHoarse/status/1362227418610753541?s=20

Seriously, how can someone say they listened to him with fondness? This is inexcusable immoral poison.

13/ And, like Trump (ym'sh) he mocked people with disabilities. In the clip below, he's gesticulating his arms around in order to mock Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson's.

Do people understand that anyone who does that is the worst sort of person?

https://twitter.com/SageRosenfels18/status/1224902092457943041

14/ So who actually defends silence, and implicitly projects they defend all of the above cruelty? People like this guy who I was told to read during the election because of polling knowledge

https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1362162863641608192

15/ The kicker is this guy from the National Review:

https://twitter.com/RichLowry/status/1362122764153405440?s=20

This is one witty response to that:

https://twitter.com/pklinkne/status/1362145511197847566?s=20

but this is a correct response:

https://twitter.com/IChotiner/status/1362141465313378305?s=20

16/ This will be it for now. We're at a moment when RedHats and other cruel fascists are trying to scurry under the garbage pits to avoid social stigma that they avoided when Trump (ym'sh) commanded the culture. Defending Rush is a sign of grotesque rot.

17/ If needed, I'll add more. But there's just so much filth I can stare at, even if the goal is justice. How much evil do you need to see before concluding it's unacceptable? My limit is very low.

@threadreaderapp please unroll.

@threader_app please compile.