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

[Doug Henwood]

On Oct 14, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> 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.

We can't all be as sophisticated as you.

Doug