Yes, I think the "hate" card is precisely part of the general and fairly successful attempt of the right to appropriate left vocabulary and tactics. "Hate" is bad, right? Their screaming TREASON, SLANDER, etc., isn't hate, it's a calm objective matter of fact judgment, rights. We're the ones who are insane, unreasonable, frothing.
Of course we should not be ashamed or apologetic to say that we hate George W. Bush and his evil designs, we hate the capitalist system and U.S. imperialism. What's to like? We are supposed to be tolerant of people who want to invade, rape, ruin, and exploit the world?
--- snitsnat <snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> A friend of ours is pushing us to start a blog. OKey
> Dokey. As we were
> talking about which ones we read and why, he
> mentioned Glen Reynolds, etc.
> etc. and said he never read the lefty blogs because
> they were filled with hate.
>
> Since I have to deal with this sort of thing
> everyday, I usually just shut
> my mouth and move on when I know arguing won't get
> anywhere. Yes, Carl, I'm
> one of those US wimps! :)
>
> Now, my question is: What exactly about, say, Atrios
> or Daily Kos (the
> leftleaning equivalent of Glen Reynolds [I guess??])
> is filled with hate?
> The key is, that it's filled with more hate than
> Reynolds? I know, I know,
> it's ideology. Whatever. I can't believe halfway
> smart people are that
> ignorant --that incapable of self-reflection or the
> capacity to see the big
> ol' plank in their own eye.
>
> IOW, if I'm expecting that _they_ see how their own
> bloggers are "full of
> hate," then shouldn't it follow that I should try to
> do the same. Perhaps I
> haven't read Atrio and Kos enough, but I really
> can't see it as "hate".
>
> And what about this "hate" crap anyway. Why has that
> become such a huge
> meme? (*sputter* I *hate* the meme meme!) Why is it
> the height of insult to
> claim someone is a 'hater'? It's very strange. So,
> I *hate* Ken DeLay.
> Whatever that means. I don't like Ken DeLay's
> politics. In fact, I *hate*
> Ken DeLay's politics. So? What? Am I supposed to
> respect them? Is this meme
> some attempt to play on what Wojtek rightly points
> out is a kind of guilty
> conscience among lefties -- were afraid to play
> dirty (even though a
> rightwinger will tell you that lefties are masters
> at it and, after all,
> Horowitz learned it from the left!)
>
> anyway, just rambling questions/thoughts.
>
>
> s.s.
>
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