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To: youngjim

You're apparently missing the point that typically polemics does not appeal to the intellect, but to the emotions--generally polemical works are also propaganda. Hmm. . .


163 posted on 06/17/2006 12:11:36 PM PDT by ahayes ("If intelligent design evolved from creationism, then why are there still creationists?"--Quark2005)
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To: ahayes
You're apparently missing the point that typically polemics does not appeal to the intellect

I'm sorry, I must have missed you claiming this--as I missed your claim that "generally polemical words are also propaganda."

Thank you for proving my point. Until this bit of self-revelation you've hid behind a clumsy act of Socratic Irony. Now we can see the ignorance of your argument in full view. Your "typically" and "generally" waffles around polemics and polemical works betray a complete lack of understanding of these terms in the context of political debate. You've constructed your argument out of the whole cloth of your sanctimonious indignation of a few words on a page. IOW, you are so offended by AC's words, you have given yourself and intellectual pass on evaluating what they mean and the rest of her book in context. Instead you claim some vapid moral authority in the matter of the use of a legitmate rhetorical device.

While you feel comfortable sucking your rhetorical thumb; I submit it is you who is gauche to come to this table to debate as a hapless victim, lamenting the decency of others who cannot "fairly" evaluate Miss Coulter's claims.

Excuse me while I cry you a river.

180 posted on 06/17/2006 12:31:22 PM PDT by youngjim (Irony is wasted on the stupid)
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