Well, I'd been waiting for Echidne to ban me from her site after the misnamed Gentlewoman called me a fascist, a liar, a GOP plant, a man (!), and a gold-plated bitch on wheels. It makes absolute sense to ban the person attacked rather than the attacker, right?
If you're leftwing it does. I discovered Echidne's website about six weeks ago and was instantly hypnotized by the hysteria over The Path to 9/11. It was amazing to read that posters there actually thought watching that docudrama (not a documentary as Michael Moore calls his fantasies) would cause viewers to automatically cast their ballots for Republicans six weeks later.
I have to admit, I was hooked. I'm not sure if it was this attempt to slam conservatives for thinking the poor are better off today than 40 years ago:
A somewhat different version of the same argument has been used to explain why we shouldn't worry about real poverty that much. First, the poor can buy cheap electronic gadgets; cheap, because the price of electronics tends to drop in real terms fairly rapidly after the product is first introduced. We are all equal on the internet, too!
Or maybe it was this refreshingly honest admission by a regular contributor about what he really thinks of Republicans:
I won't be fair to fascists. I won’t be nice to Nazis. I will not give them a fair hearing. They've had their hearing and on their own terms. We've had their message aired universally, enthusiastically supported by conservatives here and abroad, and we have abundant examples of what happens when they achieve power... We know the catalog of their crimes and we know that those crimes are the only part of their platform that they deliver on. They promise to kill people, to enslave people, to exclude people and to plunder the property of their victims. And that they can do. That is they can until either their own population or another has had enough and overthrows them. Victory, a higher standard of living, what they promise their supporters will be bought with that blood? No. They're not so good on that despite the lying Luce line.
In any event, I've spent the last six weeks trying to debate logically with people who insist on bringing everything down to the id level: Republicans are evil, lying fascists. I don't want to hear anything that disagrees with that viewpoint!
My initial reason for finding Echidne's spot was that I was looking for new feminist blogs. I stayed, I must admit, because the entertainment value of so many hysterical (yes, that's the proper word for it) comments of women complaining about being stereotyped as hysterical was, well, hysterical! Ah, well. I wish Echidne and her commenters nothing but the best. Now, where shall I go next? Who can top being called a gold-plated bitch on wheels? Where else does Gentlewoman post? :)
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