Politics and Culture

Link: http://mithras.blogs.com/blog/2005/08/conservative_bl.html

The left trying to bring people together looks like the article linked to above.

I liked this one:

6. Volokh Conspiracy - Doctrinaire right-wing lawyers who intellectualize and ward off reality, interspersed with flashes of viciousness. Fortunately, Volokh is so tone-deaf he has already excluded himself from the judgeship he obviously desires - he's described himself as a "law and order conservative" (code for putting blacks in jail) and praised torturing prisoners before executing them.

How much do you want to bet he didn't say that? This is what Prager calls projection. Now, are there people in places without a large black population that still want law and order? What's their motivation?

It also happens that a statisical analysis of crime proves conclusively that law and order reduces it. Therefore, he is endorsing a policy that leads to more crime. Since people of the same race tend to victimize each other, he is, de facto, in favor of more black victims.

But, who cares? Like he really believes it. Why can't we have intelligent discourse instead of these posts judged on coming up with the best insult? Wouldn't it have been better to look at the sites and attack them with reasonable argument? No, then he'd have to 1. take conservatives seriously, which would require him to 2. perform research and make cogent points which would, in turn, prevent him from 3. making dismissive little jokes.

And then he attacks looks. Very progressive.