[lbo-talk] Dumbing Down (was Can Politics Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 10/13/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> call Saddam a "monster"
> the Iranian regime sucks

I'm struck by the dumbing down of political vocabulary on the Left:
Saddam is a "monster"; "the Iranian regime sucks"; and Lee Bollinger
is "rude."*

These are children's vocabulary.
-- 
Yoshie