Heh! A question from me about the capabilities of the 9/11 hijackers was converted into a thread about the racist motivation of such questioning!
> If I had to venture a guess, I would assume it has
> something to do with the objective weakness and
> societal irrelevance of the left. The feeling of
> weakness and irrelevance is then transformed into an
> intense hatred for others who are closest to "us."
> Maybe one has to feel one has to blame others on "our"
> side for "our" weakness.
At the cost of playing the very psycho-analysis game, I think this may well be part of the reason for the internal viciousness. Perhaps the right is right about us ... we are a bunch of whiny cowards. An easier (to reconcile) explanation that I have offered in the past is that the new left has a very different notion of solidarity, if at all. They are similar to the right in their faith in the individual (flesh or mind).
--ravi
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