Its not inconsistent. Its very clear and obvious and consistent. We can celebrate the death of bad people. I've said it before, but I'll say it again: Context! The exact same action being made by two different people are not morally equal.
Rush celebrated the death of gay people from Aids out of a bigoted sense that gays deserve to die for Aids for being gay.
I am celebrating Rush's death specifically because of his bigoted opinions.
These two actions are not the same, because one comes from a place of bigotry and hatred towards gays, the other comes from a place of hatred towards those self same bigots.
The act itself, celebrating death, is no inherently moral or immoral. The context makes it one or the other. Who, what, when, where and why.
No act in inherently moral or immoral, the context of the act is what matters. If Rush celebrated the death of Adolf Hitler then I wouldn't hate him for that because Hitler was a bad man who deserved death, its morally okay. And if I celebrate the death of...I dunno, Japanese people because I'm xenophoic and hate the Japanese that's bad, that's immoral.
But there is the rub again: Bad People.
Bad is determined by your perception. Whatever moral stance you cling to at that time. There are people on this earth who actually think it's bad or evil to be gay. That is clearly wrong that it doesn't even bare commenting on, and yet, there are people who truly believe that gay people choose to be gay out of some sort of wickedness.
People think feminism is a sort of evil because it's disturbing the natural order of things, and children are suffering due to women's selfishness.
BLM are bad because they are making up lies about the police force and they just want to loot with an excuse.
Poor people are bad because all they want are handouts and they'll willfully subject their children to that lifestyle because they don't want to work.
The Left is a cabal bound and determined to destroy everything America is and who want to take what's rightfully 'Americans' and give them to those who don't deserve it.
Blacks have higher crime rates because they are lazy and/or predetermined to that kind of life style.
Because of morals and perception, if I died literally right now, someone would feel the world is a bit safer because of intrinsically who I am. Because I am a bad person in their minds. I believe America is a fraud, a failed PR stunt. I'm black. I believe there should be no barriers for women to have equal footing and that we need them in places of leadership because it's an all hands on deck, best and the brightest situation we have here. Because I classify gay/trans/pan people as just people and put no judgment on them.
For some people, I'm literally the evil that lays in the shadows. And in their heart of hearts, they'll praise whatever they worship when I'm cold and dead in the ground because they will think I'm not around to corrupt their way of life any more.
When we allow ourselves to pass judgment on what life matters, yeah, that's inconsistency. To us, Rush is vile and unmistakably evil. To others, he was someone who gave them hope.
For my next part, I'm shifting it to Brawlman
@ObsidianJones I respect you for your high respect of life. I do have some similar values, but even I have my limits. You can choose to do what you do, but no one is under any moral obligation to not celebrate the death of someone so spiteful and evil. When I told my parents of Limbaugh's death: my mom said "Oh well, good bye. Won't be missing him", and my dad said "Sucks to be him". My mom especially, as even less patience for assholes like him. You can't force or change other peoples feelings on the matter. Especially those that have been hurt by Limbaugh or others exactly like him.
I completely understand that no one is under any obligation to follow my path. It's hard enough for me to follow my path. I've never stated anyone should. I'm not asking you or anyone to change. I've literally said I'm just confused on why are we engaging in what we considered vile when he did it. Even though he was wrong in thinking gays were wrong or evil (and he is very wrong)... if he did believe it, our actions are giving him and other people the exact excuse to continue to do actions that we find deplorable.
The issue isn't if they are right or correct. Like I said, Spiteful and evil is relative. To the Right, AOC is Spiteful and Evil. Just her opposition of the total control of the Republican Party has people legitimately believing that she will cause the downfall of our nation. That makes her an enemy. They aren't right. But they believe that they are. And you better believe those people will celebrate if AOC dies tomorrow.
The distinctions of what lives are worth living is a dangerous road to be on. It's literally what the opposition supposedly does, and what we help us to classify as "evil".
Rush was a person that I didn't like. I supported almost nothing he said. His vileness should be stapled to any thing that references him, and it should be well known forever that he espoused and supported things that would give people pause. No one should pretend otherwise. We are in agreement of that, and I'm fine with it.