[lbo-talk] Corey Robin's Reactionary Mind argument in miniature

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 05:28:59 PST 2012


Doug: "You used to be about 20% annoying and 80% interesting. Now you're 95% annoying and 5% interesting."

[WS:] I disagree. I find her recent postings far more interesting and informative than her old postings. I do not understand this whole brouhaha about Robin - I liked his book even though it did not answer the what's the matter with Kansas question (whether it intended to do it or not) - but beside that, her recent postings are quite informative on issues ranging from anarchists to professions.

Wojtek

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 7, 2012, at 8:29 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
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>> BTW, his last couple of paragraphs are what always make me cringe about his approach to argument on his blog. he knows that he shouldn't imply that they are hypocrites. So, he tells us that "we" aren't implying they are hypocrits, even after he does point and laugh at Sanchez, implying he's a hypocrit, with the phrase, "It never seems to dawn on Sanchez...." This is just another way of saying, what a hypocrit. Robin implies with "it never seems to occur" that Sanchez either lies to himself or is so ideologically blinded, he doesn't realize he's a hypocrit/inconsistent.
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> Hey you know what? This:
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>  http://cleandraws.com/2012/03/08/upper-middle-class-mores-alpha-male-behavior-etc/
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> is a bag of shit. You can criticize my friends all you want. I only ask that you actually know what the fuck you're talking about when you do.
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> You used to be about 20% annoying and 80% interesting. Now you're 95% annoying and 5% interesting. The whole bitch/snit act has taken you over and you've become almost nothing but a pain in the ass.
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> So: fuck you.
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> Doug
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