Bollinger IS rude!
I think Chomsky called Saddam a monster back in the 1980s when he was our friend.
"Sucks" is not an analytical term, but given your apologetics, it may be an apt remonder taht even someone with a big brain, a large vocabulary, a lot of capacity for critical thinking, and the potential to grasp nuance, can nonetheless advocate views that are just (this is another not very analytical term) wacko.
I dunno whether left discourse is dumber than it used to be. I recall the days when a lot of M-L chitcat of a pretty unbearable sort was in vogue, for example. But it's also dumb and childish to say, you are either With Us or Against Us and You MUST CHOOSE.
--- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> 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.
> --
> Yoshie
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