Lefty despair

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Sep 20 06:36:46 PDT 2002



>One can easily point to the downside of the left (and there are a fair
>number of humorless, self-righteous prigs who claim they wish to advance the
>species -- I've worked with them, marched with them, nearly strangled them
>on occasion) without donning the same straitjacket. That this rather simple
>concept perplexes you might serve as an alarm bell.
>
>DP

You can say, obviously, that such and such leftists are humorless, self-righteous prigs, naming names, without the statement turning back upon you; but you can't be a leftist and say that "the left in general are a bunch of humorless and self-righteous losers," without a reflexivity problem. Of course, if you are not a leftist, as some claim to transcend left and right (I recall there was a thread on "post-leftism," though I didn't look into it at all), it makes sense to dismiss "the left in general." -- Yoshie

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