tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post7685586322092448396..comments2023-09-15T08:07:28.542-06:00Comments on Western Hero: Speech Codes are Thought CodesSilverfiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-15118448474001207732011-11-07T08:13:50.665-07:002011-11-07T08:13:50.665-07:00VDH is Victor Davis Hanson, who still identified h...VDH is Victor Davis Hanson, who still identified himself as a Democrat at last count, but who has been very popular with readers of right wing publications such as David Horowitz's Front Page Magazine for presenting cogent fact-filled articles that poke holes in liberal arguments while eloquently defending Conservative positions.<br /><br />VDH, however, is also noted for voluminous, tediously dry, humorless prose filled with stupefying amounts of data with no hint of persuasive charm or dramatic flair.<br /><br />Victor is on the side of the angels, no doubt, but really rather dull.<br /><br />I much prefer the tongue-in-cheek approach of Mark Steyn whose great style and penchant for sprinkling his pieces with just the right amount of hyperbole makes you chuckle, and keeps you well entertained as you're being equally well informed.<br /><br />Nice thing about Steyn is they way he addresses his audience as if it were equally in the know as he. Mark elegantly skewers the folks you love to hate, but you never feel he might someday turn on you. <br /><br />"Tone" makes a tremendous difference in that art of communication. The same set of facts presented in a friendly confiding manner are apt to have a much greater impact than those hurled down at you like rocks from a high place by a giant who doesn't care if he wounds you as long you agree to see things his way.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-69375984730139751592011-11-07T07:54:14.593-07:002011-11-07T07:54:14.593-07:00Not the death of "words," but rather the...Not the death of "words," but rather the death of "reason," has emerged in this thread. The atmosphere is reminiscent of The Mad Hatter's Tea Party.<br /><br />Everyone is talking, no one is listening. Attempts at elucidation are offering in tones of scathing condescension. <br /><br />Facts emerge from feelings by the way not the other way 'round. For example some poor blighter can't afford to feed his kids, they've cut off his unemployment check, he's about to be evicted from his dwelling for non payment of rent. He feels desperate, and rightly so. <i>[His feelings are facts in and of themselves.]</i> At any rate he feels compelled to rob a bank for obvious reasons. As Dillinger famously said when asked why he robbed banks, "Because that's where they keep the money."<br /><br />So our desperate friend robs a local bank, gets a wad of cash, buys food for his family, pays his back rent, but then he gets caught.<br /><br />Result: He gets ten years in prison, while his wife and children get thrown into the street and become homeless, unemployable beggars worse off then they ever were before.<br /><br />Now, I'm just writing off the top of my head, so I'm not quoting "facts," nevertheless, the tenor of the times indicates there are myriad "facts" out there that would support my story. The names might be different, but the SITUATION is the same or belongs in the same category.<br /><br />Let's take another bad situation: <br /><br />If someone gets brutally murdered in your neighborhood does it matter very much if his name is spelled correctly? A little, not much. Does it matter whether he and his woman were legally married? Not much. Does it matter how old he was? Not much. Does it matter whether he was rich or poor? Not much. Does it matter whether he was white or colored? Not much. <br /><br /><br />What matters is the man is DEAD.<br /><br />What matters next is to find out WHO KILLED HIM.<br /><br />Does it matter that his widow doesn't appear to be grieving? MAYBE.<br /><br />Does it matter that he was hated, because he a bad temper? PROBABLY. <br /><br />Does it matter that he owed lot of of people money? UNDOUBTEDLY.<br /><br />Does it matter that he constantly went out with other women, and often didn't come home a night? YES. It widens the pool of possible suspects -- i.e. those our corpse once cuckolded.<br /><br />Inductive reasoning.<br /><br />Deductive reasoning.<br /><br />Both useful, necessary tools in any search for truth.<br /><br />Facts alone are not worth much, unless you step back and see how they fit into The Big Picture -- that mosaic, I've mentioned before.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-66568397300170373182011-11-07T06:09:32.537-07:002011-11-07T06:09:32.537-07:00The essay is called "the death of words"...The essay is called "the death of words", which you can read on google books, from "On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature".<br /><br />I'm about to expose my ignorance: who or what is VDH?<br /><br />"Me, I often avoid writing about a topic because I can't get the facts I need."<br />Admirable! It's not as if you aren't prolific enough as it is...jezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14865247084509280406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-78703828676894030522011-11-07T05:37:06.404-07:002011-11-07T05:37:06.404-07:00Jez: Excellent comments! You are so right. I do...Jez: Excellent comments! You are so right. I do not exempt myself from this malady.<br /><br />What book or essay is the CS Lewis quote from?<br /><br />USMC: Thank you! But Finntann is closer to VDH than I. If you need something researched, just ask him and you'll have your answer in about 5 minutes. Me, I often avoid writing about a topic because I can't get the facts I need.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-19020984917041755542011-11-07T03:16:17.057-07:002011-11-07T03:16:17.057-07:00A related but slightly parallel concept to newspea...A related but slightly parallel concept to newspeak is C.S. Lewis' "death of words":<br /><br />"The vocabulary of flattery and insult is continually enlarged at the expense of the vocabulary of definition. As old horses go to the knacker's yard, or old ships to the breakers, so words in their last decay go to swell the the enormous list of synonyms for good and bad."<br /><br />While newspeak is a deliberate effort of linguistic engineering to impoverish the masses' ability to think, the death of words happens completely naturally, like erosion.<br /><br />Fascism is now firmly a synonym for "bad". The same applies to "racism".<br />If you find that using these terms automatically causes an indignant uproar, I can only recommend that you find more thoughtful people to talk to. I have no idea how to improve this in general.<br /><br />On the other hand, the speech -> thought process can be positive, I think that the PC idea of finding polite ways to refer to other groups is an example. If you speak about people as eg. pakis and mongs, then you're probably thinking of them in at best rather dismissive terms. Stop saying the word, and hopefully thought will follow.jezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14865247084509280406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-87797451643614751242011-11-07T01:26:40.920-07:002011-11-07T01:26:40.920-07:00JMJ; you said "Then he asks, "Jersey, ...JMJ; you said "Then he asks, "Jersey, how are voter laws racist?" as if he hasn't read the any American history whatsoever in his entire life."<br /><br />History? As if we don't know the past? the question is ARE, not WERE......so tell us, please; how ARE voter laws racist today?Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-64302998604663768792011-11-07T00:00:53.457-07:002011-11-07T00:00:53.457-07:00Z said, "I've never personally met a raci...Z said, "I've never personally met a racist Conservative..."<br /><br />Silver said, "And Jersey, right on cue, provides an object lesson in how Orwell's speech-thought-speech dynamic works. A rightwing racist behind every tree..."<br /><br />Finntann goes off in this direction, "Obama is as much white as he is black... "<br /><br />Then he asks, "Jersey, how are voter laws racist?" as if he hasn't read the any American history whatsoever in his entire life.<br /><br />And then, in a final irony, he says, "Given there comparative populations we are obviously discriminating against white anglo-saxon protestants when it comes to who we allow to come here."<br /><br />Well, Finntann, those "socialist" western and northern Europeans aren't emigrating these days. Just goes to show, huh?<br /><br />Why do you guys suppose it is that people who live under the Monroe Doctrine aren't doing well in their home countries and so immigrate here to make money? <br /><br />JMJJersey McJoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15426560061830038806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-9506421563669576142011-11-06T21:37:10.905-07:002011-11-06T21:37:10.905-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.amanofwonderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07768503222281730188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-84978178571449975202011-11-06T20:51:15.849-07:002011-11-06T20:51:15.849-07:00Besides, I would simply be trying to reiterate wha...Besides, I would simply be trying to reiterate what Finntan said, so much more succinctly that I would have, above.98ZJUSMChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00835592067007059336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-18250659913264867112011-11-06T20:46:22.128-07:002011-11-06T20:46:22.128-07:00Excellent read again, SF. I am going to refrain o...Excellent read again, SF. I am going to refrain on commenting as your resident lefties have begun to slip even further off the rails into obvious self delusion.<br /><br />No,....... even further than they already are.<br /><br />Except for this:<br /><br /><i> Racism remains a very serious problem in America, and most of it comes from the Right.<br /><br />There's no arguing that. That's not "newsspeak" or "codespeak" or a "dog whistle." It is reality.<br /><br />Anyone who says otherwise deluded, ignorant, or a liar. Period.</i><br /><br />You need serious help. Try avoiding the MSLSD. Word is, it's a bad batch. Absolutes, from a deluded, ignorant and lying Liberal. Go figure.<br /><br /><br /><br />Once again, good read SF. I am a fan of your writing style. There is something of the VDH in you.98ZJUSMChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00835592067007059336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-51134224487724535822011-11-06T20:24:26.199-07:002011-11-06T20:24:26.199-07:00Finntann, excellent comment; that's fascinatin...Finntann, excellent comment; that's fascinating and you're so right. I remember laughing when Global Warming became CLIMATE CHANGE because it was getting COLDER :-) YIKES!<br />By the way, I think mothers, years ago, DID want to use "mouth soap" (on their kids for 'bad words'!) And, imagine what those mothers from days gone by would have thought of the language some kids use NOW? Gad, I think those moms would have used MOUTH NUKES if their kid used some of the words I hear in small kids today!Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-40563058393966269162011-11-06T20:07:37.864-07:002011-11-06T20:07:37.864-07:00Z... ask Ducky, he's the one claiming voter ID...Z... ask Ducky, he's the one claiming voter ID laws are disenfranchising the masses.<br /><br />Although, after careful consideration one might construe the implication that minorities are not as capable of obtaining legal forms of ID as white people, to be a racist sentiment. It might not be racist in the sense of the KKK, but it's certainly racist in the sense of colonialism and "The White Man's Burden".<br /><br />But I digress, more about words.<br /><br />In modern political discourse, labels are used to shut down debate not encourage it. They are a means of avoiding discussing the merits of an argument and simply serve to divert attention from the issues at hand.<br /><br />They are also used to frame subjects. The fact that there is a Pro-Choice movement and not a Pro-Abortion movement stem from the images each label conjures. <br /><br />More importantly, look at the infotainment imposed meta-narrative in American politics. Generally, we aren't discussing issues, we are discussing gossip.<br /><br />Not that framing is anything new, it's called 'Social Security' and not 'Income Insurance' for a reason.<br /><br />It is also ongoing, watch in amazement as "Global Warming" metamorphosizes into "Climate Change". Watch as the discussion shifts from "Carbon Dioxide" to "Dirty Fuels". <br /><br />Or my personal favorite "Cap and Trade" referred to as "Cap and Cash Back"... or even "Pollution Reduction Refund".<br /><br />After all... who wants to use "Tooth Cleanser" or "Mouth Soap".<br /><br />Cheers!Finntannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09234170229108668040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-39392995354425642802011-11-06T18:39:39.223-07:002011-11-06T18:39:39.223-07:00Btw, I find the whole racism issue boring. I thin...Btw, I find the whole racism issue boring. I think the civil rights marchers were heroes, including John Lewis (who I agree with on just about nothing), but nothing new has been said on the issue in about 40 years.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-32907495250861200422011-11-06T18:37:37.419-07:002011-11-06T18:37:37.419-07:00Actually, Malcolm it's not interesting why I s...Actually, Malcolm it's not interesting why I skipped over your main comment. Rush Limbaugh can defend himself (or not). I'm not his proxy, and this post has nothing to do with what he said. It is about George Orwell and the use and abuse of language.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-13500337520257970842011-11-06T18:14:17.491-07:002011-11-06T18:14:17.491-07:00Silverfiddle: I'm well aware that your comment...Silverfiddle: I'm well aware that your comments about the left's attacks against Cain weren't the main point of your post (which is why I framed my question as a "by the way" afterthought).<br /><br />Interestingly, you skipped over the main point in my comments. One thing I forgot to say is that I don't think Touré is projecting. <br />In case you didn't hear the response Touré gave on Friday to Rush's comments, I have it posted on my blog. Touré makes it clear that he's open to engaging in a debate/discussion on racism. I'd love to hear your thoughts on Touré's Friday commentary.Malcolmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065814455731328574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-26007062044743636002011-11-06T17:34:28.963-07:002011-11-06T17:34:28.963-07:00Despite all the bleating into the echo chamber ove...Despite all the bleating into the echo chamber over the Voter ID issue (to save time, every liberal who cries about this should just link to a NY times article, because they all say the same thing), no one has been able to explain how this disenfranchises anyone.<br /><br />Get an ID and go vote! I find it tendentious to maintain that there are people who are literally too poor to pay to get a notarized birth certificate and then to pay for a state ID.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-74361909853930580662011-11-06T17:30:57.902-07:002011-11-06T17:30:57.902-07:00Malcolm: The Odonnell guy going after Herman for ...Malcolm: The Odonnell guy going after Herman for not participating in more civil rights marches, for one.<br /><br />An attack doesn't have to be unfair or even particularly vicious. Substitute "going after" or "critically examining" if you wish. That statement was in the introduction and does not go to the main point of the post.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-84878781526612767442011-11-06T17:19:12.100-07:002011-11-06T17:19:12.100-07:00@FT,
You said:
"Because of Marxism, Fabianis...@FT,<br /><br />You said:<br />"Because of Marxism, Fabianism, Bolshevism, Cultural Marxist Activism up is now down, black is now white, in is out, wrong is right, dark is light, ugly is beautiful, immorality is virtue, disputatiousness is celebrated, insolence institutionalized -- and vice versa to all of that and much much more. Our thinking has become so perverse as to be suicidal."<br />--------------------<br /><br />This was said very long ago, in The Scriptures, wherein Isaiah was given the words:<br /><br />"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!"<br /><br />Not a sermon. Just prophetic fact. We are most assuredly seeing this first-hand in modern-day America.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-4295471073114627122011-11-06T17:05:35.151-07:002011-11-06T17:05:35.151-07:00I was fortunate to grow up in a "good" n...I was fortunate to grow up in a "good" neighborhood. And it WAS a good neighborhood, but we were sheltered from the rougher, tougher, nastier aspects of existence, although we were taught to show respect and gratitude towards the people who did the less appealing jobs -- i.e. garbage collecting, house cleaning, gardening, bus driving, janitoring, etc. But in truth we were only a step or two above the "lower orders."<br /><br />Hell! My immigrant grandfather <i>was</i> a janitor. It was the only job he could get. <b>The difference between <i>our</i> family and most of those who lived at "the bottom" was <i>ambition</i> -- and a <i>lot</i> of native intelligence</b>. <br /><br />My parents and their siblings were all taught to ignore slurs and racal epithets and above all to respect learning. They were expected to do their homework, get good grades, always to "let their reach exceed their grasp," and rise to greater heights than their parents. <br /><br />You wouldn't get any dinner, if you didn't do your homework in one of my grandmother's house. Result? All four boys on mother's side of the family graduated from college -- a feat almost unheard of in those days.<br /><br />When I was young, decent people would never think using terms like Nigger, Spic, Kike, Sheeny, Mocky, Wop, Dago, Dirty Irish Mick, Chink, Gook, Wog, Po-lock, Hunky, Heiney, Faggot -- or whatever. I'm sure my immediate forebears, however, heard that stuff a lot on the sidewalks of New York where they were raised.<br /><br />What we call "racism" today was endemic -- just a part of everyday living. All the different ethnic immigrant groups disliked and distrusted each other, and behaved accordingly. It was not very pleasant, but it was <i>normal.</i><br /><br />I never heard any of those words, however, until after the self-righteous liberals got aggressive and kept on insisting -- in print, on TV and in my face -- that "people like you" (meaning me and my white, Protestant, middle class kind, of course) always talked that way, and if they didn't say it loud, they <i>thought</i> that way.<br /><br />In my experience it has always been the liberal activists who do everything possible to stir up trouble, foment discontent, exacerbate ill will and foster POLARITY wherever they leave their droppings. <b>They <i>thrive</i> on conflict.</b><br /><br />The indulgence by those who consider themselves Conservatives and Libertarians in legal hair-splitting in an effort to be "fair" to those who are an obvious threat to everything we have built and fought for in the past is counterproductive to efficacy in neutralizing pernicious influences in our society.<br /><br /><b>That's why there should be no taboos.</b> <br /><br />There are so very many topics one literally cannot discuss openly today, because self-righteous bullies have decided to clamp down on ideas and forms of expression <i>they</i> don't like. The continual threat of insult, excoriation, expressions of withering contempt, withdrawal of approval, blanket rejection of everything the offending sources has ever produced, outright ostracism, even phyisical attack and <i>now</i> the official <b>CRIMINALIZATION of unpopular sentiments</b> is an extraordinarily powerful tool for shutting down debate. And sets us a course headed straight for Stalinism or Fascism -- it doesn't matter which since both are totalitarian and seek the destruction of liberty.<br /><br />I have quoted many times the well worn adage <b>"The only thing we cannot afford to tolerate is intolerance."</b><br /><br />Truer words were never spoken, but <b>immediately the problem arises of outraged intolerance towards <i>my</i> intolerance of intolerance</b>. And so we get trapped in a tautology -- or would it be more accurate to call it a vicious cycle? <br /><br />Round and round she goes, where she stops nobody knows. <br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-34971787284296369102011-11-06T17:03:40.124-07:002011-11-06T17:03:40.124-07:00There is not one thing in SilverFiddle's artic...There is not one thing in SilverFiddle's article with which I could disagree. <br /><br />Orwell said it all when he wrote Animal Farm and Nineteen-Eighty-Four. It's ugly, it's evil, it's vicious, it's oppressive, it's outrageous, but <b>because of the sort of intellectual and psychological conditioning normally intelligent people like our friend Ducky have received -- Gramsci's "Long March Through the Culture" -- IT'S THE WAY THINGS ARE.</b> <br /><br />Because of Marxism, Fabianism, Bolshevism, Cultural Marxist Activism up is now down, black is now white, in is out, wrong is right, dark is light, ugly is beautiful, immorality is virtue, disputatiousness is celebrated, insolence institutionalized -- and <i>vice versa</i> to all of that and much much more. Our thinking has become so perverse as to be suicidal.<br /><br />~ FreeThinke<br /><br />(CONTINUED)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-15232302337813673262011-11-06T17:02:34.813-07:002011-11-06T17:02:34.813-07:00"Finntann said... If you are not a citizen..."Finntann said... If you are not a citizen you have NO RIGHT TO VOTE!"<br /><br />How could ANYBODY feel differently about that? HOW?Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-1393149421726726312011-11-06T17:00:44.564-07:002011-11-06T17:00:44.564-07:00Ducky, keep up your defense of ACORN and maligning...Ducky, keep up your defense of ACORN and maligning anybody who sees through them (I know, Breitbart, the man you said should be in a body bag, blew the whistle on them so they must be right...right? :-)<br /><br />http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/11/03/acorn-officials-scramble-firing-workers-and-shredding-documents-after-exposed/<br /><br />The 'oddest thing' (wink wink) is that I went down 3 pages on Google and only conservative blogs are telling this story. Must be wrong, huh? :-)Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-4894337693109967962011-11-06T16:57:50.425-07:002011-11-06T16:57:50.425-07:00If you are not a citizen you have NO RIGHT TO VOTE...If you are not a citizen you have NO RIGHT TO VOTE!<br /><br />Let me explain it to you... it works similar to communism where if you are not a member of the party you don't have a right to vote.<br /><br />Simple enough?<br /><br />Or in your fantasyland are we already somehow disenfranchising the other 6.7 Billion people on the planet by not letting them vote either?<br /><br />Perhaps we could just open elections up world wide over the internet.<br /><br />Fairness... I am perfectly fair, all American citizens have the right to vote. You are the one who wants to look the other way and selectively enforce our laws for the benefit of some and the detriment of others.<br /><br />What part of the concept of CITIZEN do you not understand?<br /><br />I, as a citizen of Colorado do not have a say in the election of the governor of Massachusetts. <br /><br />Tony Blair as a citizen of the United Kingdom, doesn't have a say in the election of the President of the United States.<br /><br />The fact that you are here illegally from say Belize doesn't change that.<br /><br />Oh, and it's even worse... you don't have a say in the election of the President of Mexico either.Finntannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09234170229108668040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-30591871688971277592011-11-06T16:48:53.934-07:002011-11-06T16:48:53.934-07:00"Of course you seem to have missed the media ..."Of course you seem to have missed the media age, "Those who control the images control the culture" but let it go."<br /><br />How else could Obama have won? There was no media curious enough to follow up on anything; the lies, the information kept from the public, etc....... the IMAGE WAS ALL IMPORTANT. and it won.<br />The Greek columns, the posters, the big speeches...even at the Brandenburg Gate in GERMANY..... big stuff; powerful media images.<br /><br />By the way, is asking for voters to show they've registered 'oppression' or democracy at its best? And where did all those complaints from Black Hillary supporters and Gloria Allred and the rest of the Hillary Democrats about voter fraud particularly in TX disappear? So odd.<br />:-) (as if)<br /><br />As for Herman Cain and the left's assault (watch MSNBC for ten minutes!!HA); I'm waiting for the left (the media) to cover Jesse Jackson's latest sex scandal that came out, I believe, yesterday? Or Friday? <br />Will they 'assault' him on any of it? Cain sure is getting it, and no accusers' names have even come out....who knows what's true or not yet? If he's guilty, he's gone; if he's not, this whole thing STINKS. Jesse's accuser's come out of the closet. (figuratively and literally, by the way)Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-18608036450439675662011-11-06T16:05:45.492-07:002011-11-06T16:05:45.492-07:00The man you are referring to is Touré and he made ...The man you are referring to is Touré and he made some excellent points in his commentary on how Rush/other people on the right want to shut down discussions about racism. I posted about it on my blog. <br /><br />Rush has no interest in having an intelligent discussion on racism. If Rush were to engage in a debate with someone like Touré, he'd get destroyed. Nearly every time I've seen Rush go up against someone who challenges him, that's what happens. He's content to use sweeping generalizations, play the race card, and use the "I'm rubber, you're glue" defense to deflect any charges of racism. <br /><br />By the way Silver Fiddle, how exactly did the left assault Herman Cain?Malcolmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065814455731328574noreply@blogger.com