Xacly. When is the last time thoses two metrosexuals went to the range for some target practice?
I love my Ann!!
Do these pseudo-educated Poly Sci types know that you are not smart just by throwing together dozens of paragraphs with huge words and convoluted sentences?
It may make them feel superior but if they had just earned a real degree they may have gone on to real jobs and performed a real service to their community and society.
In paragraph 10 they start by writing they have analyzed ‘Coulterism’. Not only did they not analyze anything in the previous paragraphs they basically use ad homonym attacks on Ann and then blow her off while writing that they did not.
They later cover some of her more outrageous statements and then say that not only is she on the right wing fringe of politics but that the center of our Nation's politics has moved right because of the embrace of Ann.
What garbage.
The entire premise of this sludge-as-intellectual-discourse is that all the leftist thinking is completely correct and that the left must fight Coulter on her terms to defeat her and the right.
If the left ever does they will be shown for the intellectually vacuous, power hungry, communists they really are.
I couldn't get past that.
...that Coulter and her ilk...The instant that someone describes you (or someone you agree with) as having an 'ilk', you might as well turn 'em off. They've already indicated that they have nothing worthwhile to say.
There was a kernel of unintended revelation in there, in that there are attempts to establish some basis for consensus between the ‘decent peoples’ of the world.
The basic erroneous assumption, is that there are ‘decent people’ ANYWHERE in the world. Most people are first and foremost, very selfish and greedy individuals at heart no matter what indoctrination they may have undergone. Trying to redefine human nature, by words and reason alone, is doomed to failure, because of the underlying limbic nervous system we share with crocodiles and sharks. Crocodiles and sharks do not have ‘consensus’, the presence of two or more at any one time is either an alliance so they may both eat a third creature forced into a defense which fails, or one succeeds in making a meal out of the other.
Human beings are hardly more refined. If some alliance of humans has determined that another human being has ‘too much’, they make it their purpose to reduce that excess of accumulated (money, possessions, adulation from the opposite sex, whatever), to some ‘fair’ level. Conversely, if the individual who has accumulated a great excess of (money, possessions, adulation from the opposite sex, whatever), recognizes he (or she) may be subject to siege, he (or she) will take steps to stave off those assaults.
But there is no basic ‘decency’ involved here. That is something entirely different, and may only be indulged in by people who have a great deal of excess (money, possessions, adulation from the opposite sex, whatever), and who are sufficiently confident that the mob will not take away everything he (or she) possesses. This is done by distracting the mob, and turning the reservoir of wrath to somebody else.
Cynical, to be sure. But a much more accurate assessment of psychology at all levels than all the long wordy explanations in the world.
Nice guys finish last. So ‘nice’ is not to be considered to be a survival characteristic.
John F. Kennedy was quoted as saying, “My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.” JFK always gave as good as he got, so there was no excess of mercy there either.
For later...
It just never changes. If leftists didn’t represent such a danger to the well being of the US and the rights of the American people, they would just be jokes. Here are two guys who impress themselves with their intellects (ha) all to come to the conclusion that Ann fights dirty and maybe leftists should too. The next time the left displays anything approaching honor will be the first. Yet they think they’re just too nice. Get nasty like Ann, and the rabble in flyover country will suddenly become America hating leftists too. Unbelievable.
People with Grand Designs for the human race and who believe those designs can be implemented believe Humanity to be God and themselves to be God’s brain. Stalin had a political theory. So did Hitler and Pol Pot and Mao. Such theories combined with political power must lead to Auschwitz and the Killing Fields of Cambodia. Those that will not respond properly to the new order must eventually be killed. Human nature does not change so cleaning out the bad seed of one generation does not end it. The killing cannot stop and must continually expand.
What you said. I couldn't make hide nor hair out of it.
btt
To be more specific, Coulter uses the “rules” set up by liberal thought against liberalism. In that way, she is far too “liberal” for liberalism and therefore must be shunned.
On the other hand, She’s just right for libertarianism even though she holds many non-libertarian views. :->
It's also a great example of what is wrong with the "higher education" system today.
He must be getting paid by the word.
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Hey, after sifting through that trash bin I did find a couple of sentences worth keeping...
“49. ... In pointing out the inadequacy of the liberal response to Coulterism we are not calling for a better response so much as we are calling out the systemic and pervasive weaknesses of liberalism itself. This inadequacy is a symptom of the limits of the liberal approach to political thought and action.”
In other words, an intellectual pygmy.
While perhaps no more than a succinct expression of real politik, it also begs the question whether the authors believe that the eradication of such 'central value differences' is in fact a desirable outcome - albeit an unattainable desire. No doubt they do, in so far as we all believe the world would be better off if everyone thought the same as we; yet for a group that prides itself on the illusion of being 'neutral' and 'pluralistic' it must come as quite the shock to find themselves to be anything but.
Yes, it is really disturbing that there are those who use words like “ilk”, “normative” and “ontological” on a routine basis.
As you say, a lot of gobbleygook. He never gets around to answering her. He just spends a lot of cyber-ink explaining why we shouldn’t listen to her.
Which is one of her points. The left likes to shut down debate. They will not engage your argument, they will go after you.
He doesn’t realize that he just spent a lot of effort making her point. She does it much better, though. And she has a good laugh at their expense, just as icing on the cake.
Dare I say it...I went over to the DailyKos and put this into a dairy titled, “Ann Coulter and Pluralism.” Let’s see if the shit hits the fan or not.
By the way, I would be considered a “concern troll” over there, and have been doing so for a few years. So, don’t get paranoid over me being a God forsaken leftist.
12. The Coulter style is instantly recognisable; her visual image and appearance are carefully crafted."Big-eyed?"She dresses and is photographed in ways that emphasise her big-eyed, blonde femininity, yet overlays this background with sometimes shocking invective and the manner of the school headmistress-cum-dominatrix.