reminder

by E.D. Kain on August 19, 2009

We have a COMMENTING POLICY by the way, y’all. Newbies and old timers alike are more than welcome to read it.  It’s more of a suggested guidelines deal, but it really does work to keep discussion on an even keel.

E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a tech blog at Forbes. Visit his politics blog here. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant. You can also contact him via email.

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1 Roque Nuevo August 19, 2009 at 12:56 pm

Does this apply to your friend, Freddie, constantly insulting me? I know his pride is hurt, but still…

2 Freddie August 19, 2009 at 1:04 pm

Pride hurt by what? You were wrong, in your comment towards Will– not “I disagree with you” wrong but objectively, factually wrong. In addition, you were engaging in an almost self-parodic amount of insult towards Will. You were treated in kind. That’s life.

3 Roque Nuevo August 19, 2009 at 1:56 pm

Where was the insult, according to you? I don’t find it anywhere, which is why I appealed to the “hurt pride” explanation. One’s pride can be hurt (or one can become “depressed” (Will dixit) if one realizes that one has been duped into a political movement under false pretenses. Tell me how I insulted anyone, and I’ll apologize right away. It’s not my intention to insult anyone…in contrast to yours.

I simply said that York’s point was clear to me all along, that is,

For many liberal activists, opposing the war was really about opposing George W. Bush.

I realize that you have a wealth of experience in the antiwar movement and certainly I do not want to attribute any such “partisan” motives to you, personally, or to Will, personally, or to anyone you know, personally, etc etc. York’s point is a generalization, which I find accurate, as a generalization.

You say that this is “objectively wrong.” Maybe, and maybe not. York has come up with some evidence to support his generalization, which is more than you have done.
Perhaps the word “partisan” is a wrong choice, since it implies the Red/Blue divide in the US. I think “political” would be more accurate. The antiwar movement was/is political in the sense that the movement is a way for it to achieve power over the state, etc etc., irrespective of the merits of the “antiwar” philosophy.

Finding that the antiwar movement is “political” in this sense may be what depressed Will (according to his post) since this implies that it was and is not motivated purely by humanitarian philosophy or whatever. It’s contaminated by politics.

I thing that Will is young enough to have been duped by such a movement, like a lot of people were and are. It’s nothing new, after all. But now, he may see more clearly, after he gets over his “depression.”

So, Where’s the insult?

4 Lev August 19, 2009 at 12:58 pm

I was tempted to just leave a post full of nothing but curse words, ad hominem attacks and spurious claims just to rebel against the system, but I’ll save that for my 3:00 conference call.

5 E.D. Kain August 19, 2009 at 1:25 pm

The comment policy applies to everyone but it is non-binding. It’s a suggestion not a rule. Lord knows I’ve not always heeded it myself.

6 Jason Kuznicki August 20, 2009 at 6:51 am

Welcome to August. Everyone’s tetchy in August. September can’t come soon enough.

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