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| Dirty Hippies: propaganda fodder, friends to animals. by Zseni 01/19/2007, 8:57am PST | ||||
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| I don't usually read HuffPo for the same reason I don't usually read Little Green Footballs: I dislike frothingly glib extremists. Or rather I prefer to be the most frothingly glib extremist in the room. But dirty hippies are another matter. Dirty hippies get a whole lot of shit for not very much reason.
"This is how the far right colonizes the debate: they caricature a far-left strawman position, attribute it to "some" on the other side, and then cast their own position as the "center" between the far-right position and the mythical or marginalized far-left position. They've done this dozens of times, on a whole panoply of issues. To help in the process, they enlist the aid of people on the left who bash other people on the left. Sure, Pielke Jr., Mooney, and Kleiman all had their own idiosyncratic reasons for bashing dirty hippies. But do you think it's an accident that Young stripped all those idiosyncratic reasons away and left only the hippie-bashing? Far from it. That was her whole intent." The right trades on a fear of social instability which preys on many sub-rational minds. But I can't believe dirty hippies still qualify as a threat! |
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Dirty Hippies: propaganda fodder, friends to animals. by 01/19/2007, 8:57am PST  Why do you post this shit in News? by 01/19/2007, 1:43pm PST The REAL Goebbels wouldn't have any problem classifying propaganda as news. by 01/19/2007, 1:45pm PST Thank goodness liberals are above this sort of thing! NT by 01/19/2007, 8:22pm PST Of course they do, along with their attack-lobsters. NT by 01/19/2007, 8:47pm PST That's really interesting and informative. NT by 01/19/2007, 9:52pm PST |
