[lit-ideas] Re: Max Boot

  • From: Brian <cabrian@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 09:27:59 -0600

Simon, there was no vitriol present. I was demonstrating Irene's absurdity by being absurd. She has a bad habit of speculating about the psychology of people she doesn't know and imposing a template from the therapeutic/victim culture onto them. And I don't see how it in any way negates her apology or my accepting it. In fact, I think her admission of error would be stronger if she had left it at that instead of pretending I brought up Bill Clinton in a completely different context to deflect from Max Boot's crushing analysis of a position I haven't staked.


I think you're quite wrong about Rightists. By-in-large conservatives believe the Left is wrong but the Left believes the Right isn't just wrong, but bad and often evil. We see this time and again, both in the larger culture and on this list, with President Bush. It isn't enough to say his policies are wrong but that he is a bad person and a force for evil in the world. How many times has Eric taken a more conservative position and been personally attacked for it?

~Brian

On Dec 30, 2006, at 4:44 AM, Simon Ward wrote:

Seems Lawrence's surrogate didn't waste too much time descending into vitriol. Par for the course with these Rightists. Some advise: never waste an apology, you might not get another.

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