Posted on 07/17/2014 10:46:53 AM PDT by mojito
The task before me is explaining with appropriate distinctions and qualifications “What is right and what is left?” For those who wish to avoid the harangue of an activist, let me assure them that I do not equate “conservative” with Republican or with the viewing habits of FOX News devotees. Being a Republican and dutifully reciting party talking points is for me no sign of being on the right; nor is a disinclination to do either indicative of being on the left.
A classical or essentialist Right is hard to find in the contemporary Western world, where journalists and other assorted intellectuals rush to denounce its bearers, or even partial bearers, as “fascists.” That may be one reason that such types rarely come into public view, outside of certain European parties that have been able to survive in a multi-party electoral system. Being on the essentialist Right is deadly in an academic or journalistic milieu that is shot through with quintessential leftist values. There are isolated intellectual groups in the US that exhibit evidence of a right wing gestalt, but these groups are usually cut off from the movement-conservative mainstream lest they endanger “conservative” institutes or publications by expressing improper anti-leftist ideas. This is entirely understandable, given the prevalence of leftist influences in Western societies—and given the extent to which the establishment non-left has absorbed leftist values and attitudes that come from existing in a predominantly leftist environment.
(Excerpt) Read more at traditionalright.com ...
h/t David Warren.
Any reason why you didn’t post the entire essay?
The owners of this site encourage posters to excerpt and link, as it makes for friendlier relations between FR and the sites were the stories posted here originate.
That isn’t what I’ve read.
JR.—”But our readers are mostly interested in reading relevant posts in their entirety on FR without having to click to an unknown outside website where who knows what kind of cookies or tracking devices may await them.”
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“Excerpting is more polite...”
Is that like saying blogpimping is a good thing?
Pinging the expert.
Short answer: you don't.
Longer answer:
You use something that isn't a relativistic measure, like right/left, but something that actually describes qualities, like statist/libertarian.
Well.. here’s that Jim Thompson guy expressing an opinion on it:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2636843/posts?page=552#552
“I have no complaint if a good conservative blogger posts his own material to FR, not as an excerpt to drive hits and discussion back to his blog, but rather to impart useful information to OUR readers and to promote and join in on the discussion and conservative activism HERE on FR.
If a blogger can’t or refuses do that, and if he constantly complains or fights with our participants over it, then I’d just as soon he doesn’t post here. It’s not my job to make his content or his presentation or cooperation acceptable to our readers. That’s his job. And if he cannot do it or refuses to do it and continues posting brief excerpts only and obviously attempting to draw away our participants while loudly complaining about it, then I have no sympathy for his complaints and the more apt I am to ban his account and blog.”
That is incorrect.
I don't have blog, nor do I have an affiliation or financial interest in the articles I post on FR.
But I do believe that authors whose work I share on FR - because I think they have something interesting to say - should be able to reap the benefits of their work by having FR traffic directed to the site where their work was originally posted, as some of those authors are compensated by how much traffic their articles generate.
Polite and responsible people excerpt and link.
And they don't hijack threads.
I don't have a blog.
It’s a blog, you excerpted it.
If it isn’t yours, then that’s all you need to say.
The very fact you posted an unnecessary excerpt is why this thread was hijacked.
Had you posted correctly, this thread might have had promise. Had I not questioned you, this thread would be at 1 - maybe two replies.
bkmk
I'll continue to post in my way, and you can continue to hijack threads, since what other people do is of more interest to you than what the article has to say.
And Paul Gottfried is not a blogger:
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It's a blog.
I’ll continue to post in my way
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You might want to consider the words of Jim Robinson and the Admin Moderators on the subject. Excerpted of blogs is going to continue to cause you grief.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2636843/posts?page=552#552
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2711802/posts?page=139#139
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2722423/posts
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2776537/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2548666/posts?page=38#38
Just got back from my property. The mosquitoes were thick out there, too...
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