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

[Eubulides]

On 10/14/07, 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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Yet if some elucidate on the issues, our Olympian magistrate RB will
accuse us of verbosity.

Pot, kettle, insert color of choice here.

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