Gautam Mukunda wrote:
...
> > When others have contaminated a symbol with things
> > one
> > does not believe in, one reasonable response is to
> > avoid using
> > the symbol. (Another is to attempt to "reclaim" it,
> > but either
> > should be fair.)
> > So her rhetoric is over-the-top, but her basic
> > position
> > doesn't seem too far out.
> > ---David
>
> The prosecution rests.
This thread has been snipped too much for most people
to follow you, I'm afraid. I would guess that you are trying
to say something like the following?
Katha Pollit is an extreme Leftist.
David Hobby is a Leftist.
David Hobby did not criticize Katha Pollit.
Therefore, Leftists do not properly criticize their extremists.
This argument has many flaws, but the most important
one is that I do not have any clear idea of who Katha Pollit
is, and might well have misspelled her name repeatedly. : )
I was responding to YOUR examples of her "extremism".
She might well be extreme, I don't know. But the example you
gave of avoiding the symbolism of the American flag does not
seem very extreme to me. So either YOU need to provide better
examples of her extremism, or I am an extremist too.
---David
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