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No, Bristol Palin Isn’t ‘Playing The Victim’ For Talking About Death Threats Against Her

1:30 pm, May 22nd | by Laura Donovan


There are few things more awful than being viewed as a person who loves to play the victim. “Dancing with the Stars” finalist Bristol Palin, who recently criticized President Barack Obama’s evolution on same-sex couples, is being labeled a “poor me” kind of girl for saying that she received death threats in the aftermath of scoffing at the president’s move. And, as ridiculous as her anti-same-sex marriage post was, talking about people who have threatened to kill you doesn’t mean you’re “playing the victim.” The 21-year-old writes in a new blog post that she does not think of herself this way and would rather not be painted in the media as someone who wallows in self-pity:

“There are a few stories popping up – in The Advocate and one or two on HuffPo on a recent Google alert — claiming I’m playing ‘the victim card’ over here on my blog. However, anyone who actually read my post would know that I simply made two claims:
1. Those who claim to be loving and tolerant certainly are hateful and bullying.
2. But despite their efforts at name-calling and even their threats, I won’t be deterred from speaking out.”

To give you an idea of the kind of things people fired at Bristol after she griped about Obama, here is a glimpse of what commenters posted in her comments section:

Sharing this with the world is not the same as whining about what was said. Through these remarks, people on the opposite end of the political spectrum only undermined their views. No matter what you think about Bristol, she doesn’t deserve this kind of invective, and exposing it doesn’t mean she feels sorry for herself.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IUXXYQC3B7XMDO5BDDSFUM2WRU Liz McKenzie

    Where are the death threats?  In the screen shot people are wishing her dead but no one is threatening her.  Big difference … huge I tell you! 

  • Anonymous

    Yes just wishing someone is dead is fine. WOW amazing how far gone liberals have gotten with their complete hate for anyone who dares think different.

  • http://twitter.com/LauraDonovanUA Laura Donovan
  • http://twitter.com/LauraDonovanUA Laura Donovan

    Right, but would you feel comfortable if multiple people said those kinds of things to you? 

  • Anonymous

     Yes thats what I said, Did you read my full comment?

  • http://twitter.com/LauraDonovanUA Laura Donovan

    yeah, meant to direct that at liz. sorry!

  • http://www.dregstudios.com Brandt Hardin

    Like mother, like daughter.  
    Bristol is selling herself in any form or fashion just like Sarah, to
    make that money.  She pays a ghost-writer
    to slap together blog entries on hot-button issues to shamelessly promote
    herself.  Talk about some successful
    capitalists- all body and no brains.  See
    how far they’re willing to go for the cash at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/06/ecstasy-of-sarah-palin_15.html

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IUXXYQC3B7XMDO5BDDSFUM2WRU Liz McKenzie

    Well, honestly, if I said something as bigoted and narrow-minded as she said, I would EXPECT to be the target of the same type of immature hate talk.  If you are going to dish it out you have to be able to take it as well.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/F6WDMXYFH6S5NTOYGNP6WPXGFA Sarah

    How disappointing. I really hoped that people who stood up for civil rights against Ms. Palin could at least be civil about it. I disagree with everything Bristol said, but that doesn’t mean she deserves that kind of hateful invective. The people who wrote those things are only fueling the idea of the “with us or against us” mentality that liberals supposedly have. SMH

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/F6WDMXYFH6S5NTOYGNP6WPXGFA Sarah

     Really? I would EXPECT people to educate rather than flame. I would EXPECT people to act civilly when they say they disagree. I think Palin’s rhetoric was idiotic and hurtful, but that doesn’t mean  wishing her death is in order. I thought we were better than that.

  • SouthernYankee

    Hasn’t anyone figured out that these so called death threats are left on her blog to gain her creds as a victim.  I know she has alot of supporters that she probably never answers them.  How come Brissy?  You like momma dearest want the hate coming because that is the only way you can keep you out there and momma’s coffers happy.  That is the way you and your mother are raising money.  People wake up and realize what she and her mother are doing.  Those grifters are running all the way to the bank.

  • http://twitter.com/LauraDonovanUA Laura Donovan

    Totally!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IUXXYQC3B7XMDO5BDDSFUM2WRU Liz McKenzie

    I absolutely do not disagree with you but I KNOW what to EXPECT of certain people within our population.  Your argument is placing every single person in the “sane” category and that is just literally impossible.  There has been extreme rhetoric on both sides but it is definitely more bigoted and hateful on the right.  Palin’s blog would not have been targeted with wishes of her demise had she not posted asinine bigoted beliefs.  That said, no one has answered my question as to “what death threats” … wishing someone would bite the big one is completely different than an actual death threat.

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