[lbo-talk] Yey for torture, boo for perversity

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri May 14 07:56:42 PDT 2004


Jon Johanning wrote:


>On Thursday, May 13, 2004, at 09:59 PM, Luke Weiger quoted:
>
>>>From National Review's The Corner:
>>
>>EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER [John Derbyshire]
>>My mental state these past few days:
>
>Etc.
>
>I always wonder about screeds of this kind. Are the authors serious,
>or do they think their stuff is funny? (Probably the latter, but
>it's certainly a very weird sense of humor.)

Speaking as a former right-winger, I'd say serious. In the early 70s, when it was a very unusual point of view, there was a bit of defensive irony mixed in ("ha ha we're Nazis!"), but now that it's not so unusual, there's no need for that anymore.

Doug



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