>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.
When you make jokes that editors of leftish publications delete, or make observations at a meeting that fellow attendees find sacrilegous, you don't feel a "reflexivity problem" so much as a sense of dispirited alienation.
Doug