Irrelevancy illustrated: the peace rallies

[link|http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000081948oct14.story|As critqued by Marc Cooper]

Excerpts:

Some conservative critics have lambasted this left for being subversive, even treasonous. I prefer to characterize it as traumatized and dysfunctional...

The end result of this psycho-political micro-climate are two generations of American leftists who lack the political sensibility and even the simple emotional language that would allow them to see their own fellow citizens, even transitorily, as victims rather than victimizers, that would allow them to distinguish between a CIA coup abroad and the butchering of thousands of innocent American civilians at home.

Hence, that odious whiff of "chickens coming home to roost" that has permeated much of the left's reaction to Sept. 11. It's one thing to argue that Americans are naive and perhaps arrogant to have believed in a historic exceptionalism that could immunize them against pain and bloodshed on their own soil. It's quite another to suggest, as I repeatedly heard during that peace rally, that America somehow invited last month's massacre. Morally repugnant and politically unviable, this sort of demagogy can only render the left irrelevant...

We on the left must walk and chew gum at the same time.

I say:

Chickens coming home to roost indeed. That kind of talk cuts both ways.

Post #13,827 by marlowe 10/17/01 4:42:47 PM Reply	Irrelevancy illustrated: the peace rallies [link\|http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-000081948oct14.story\|As critqued by Marc Cooper] Excerpts: Some conservative critics have lambasted this left for being subversive, even treasonous. I prefer to characterize it as traumatized and dysfunctional... The end result of this psycho-political micro-climate are two generations of American leftists who lack the political sensibility and even the simple emotional language that would allow them to see their own fellow citizens, even transitorily, as victims rather than victimizers, that would allow them to distinguish between a CIA coup abroad and the butchering of thousands of innocent American civilians at home. Hence, that odious whiff of "chickens coming home to roost" that has permeated much of the left's reaction to Sept. 11. It's one thing to argue that Americans are naive and perhaps arrogant to have believed in a historic exceptionalism that could immunize them against pain and bloodshed on their own soil. It's quite another to suggest, as I repeatedly heard during that peace rally, that America somehow invited last month's massacre. Morally repugnant and politically unviable, this sort of demagogy can only render the left irrelevant... We on the left must walk and chew gum at the same time. I say: Chickens coming home to roost indeed. That kind of talk cuts both ways. [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html\|http://www.angelfir...e/index.html] Sometimes "tolerance" is just a word for not dealing with things.
Post #13,861 by Ashton 10/17/01 7:19:35 PM Reply	Nah: just the same ol same ol problem: idiot slogans As meaningless whether Right Left Up Down Top Bottom Charmed or Strange. BS words exactly as described by Stuart Chase in The Tyranny of Words and called.. Blab! words.
Post #13,877 by boxley 10/17/01 9:39:53 PM Reply	Slogans are for the ignorant masses. It gives the schmoos a chance to be relevant for that nano second in time where all dross falls away and a sense of purpose larger than life itself overcomes the id. That is when you can direct the mob to your own aims and devices quite often at extreme angles to the normal belief of the mass. thanx, bill Idealogue for hire Cheap Rates, Quality Work, Insurance is our Specialty tshirt front "born to die before I get old" thshirt back "fscked another one didnja?"
Post #13,887 by Ashton 10/17/01 10:14:21 PM Reply	Damn Box: that rates an A for Virtuosity! (kan't spel here)

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