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It’s not difficult to imagine social media staffers at the RNC scratching their heads and saying “why didn’t we think of that?”
This is actually moderately difficult to imagine I think
Ho! Ho!
The funniest thing about “attackwatch” is that about 90% of the entries are full of “mock”. I don’t think this asshole Messina had any clue what a can of worms he was opening. Stupid m####rf####er.
I hope my girlfriend doesn’t go to jail, because I used her e-mail to mock these nazi pricks.
This man Obama is a blunderbus on steroids, with wet powder. What amazing assholes he and his whole crew are! And don’t get me started on the Wookie wannabe. $10 million dollars on vacations? C’mon. You have to be shitting me! “All that for a fucking flag?” You go, Wookie!
I am going to K-mart to buy my brown shirt, as I speak!
Let’s pretend!
Where have I seen that color scheme before?
It’s not difficult to imagine social media staffers at the RNC scratching their heads and saying “why didn’t we think of that?”
I’m sure the only thing that stopped them was some common sense. As opposed to “Dude, the Obama campaign just slammed its face into a wall… we should TOTALLY do that too!”.
Geoffb – Stormfront?
Dave in SoCal:
Don’t worry. The Repubs WILL slam their faces into a wall the first chance they get. They are too stupid not to whack their own brains out.
Garan-fuckin’-teed!
The older version of Stormfront who could all speak German, I’m thinking.
Don’t worry. The Repubs WILL slam their faces into a wall the first chance they get. They are too stupid not to whack their own brains out.
No doubt. But hopefully it’ll be over something not quite as gobsmackingly stupid.
I turned myself in. You guys better watch yourself.
That little story is quite touching in its innocence, I think.
The comments are really funny, I liked this one:
“I reported the entire Mediaite staff, especially Tommy Christopher, for unfair or untruthful media attacks on President Obama. I am now working on all the MSNBC crew.”
bh, bingo. Just need some little squiggly lines.
geoffb, are you thinking lighting bolts or something more pinwheely?
Why not both, diversity you know.
Scoamf.
Really.
what’s also wow is that bachmann had all day to walk back her insipid vaccine bibble babble and it doesn’t appear that she did
What’s amazing about this whole #AttackWatch thing is that it happened before with the #AskObama town hall. And yet they did it anyway.
I though this was the hip, internet savvy, all plugged in bunch. And they thought this was a good idea?
A long time coming but, what with this and stuff like the ‘If you love me’ rhetoric, it does seem that now is truly the moment when the crowd sees that the emperor is wearing no clothes.
Watch as the progressives begin their massive gyrations to ensure that it is only Obama who takes the fall, and not all that he represents.
Another Wow!
I turned myself in also.
I denounced myself as a confused racist, because I despise the white and black half of the President.
I bet her parents also installed a pet fence just in case the whistle didn’t work. Geez.
“Regardless of context.”
And the university is taking this seriously?
This goes beyond mere complaints about textualism. This was followed by “…would be an example of an unacceptable and dangerous opinion” — the part of the sentence that makes the student’s claim WRONG on its face. Meaning, she seems to be proving the Prof’s thesis: you are not entitled to your opinion about what he meant, when it’s clear that he took pains to make his intent clear.
This reminds me of the truncation of the Bennett bit years back. Many “conservatives” rushed in to tut-tut Bennett, even though they allowed that he’d not said anything racist, and in fact was arguing the opposite position.
If this university wasn’t just a money-making degree factory, they’d kick the student out for being a fucking self-absorbed moron — and anyone other than some Israel Advocacy group would be crazy to hire this chick going forward.
The “intellectual” equivalent of “LALALALALALA! I CAN’T HEAR YOOOOOOO!”
Same shit they did with Bill Bennett and the Freakonomics thing. You’re either on board, or you’re a racist.
I’m trying to figure how she made it through the first three years of classes and got all her assignments done and tests passed.
‘Jews should be sterilized’
what happened to this blog you never used to find antisemitic shit like this here
i think jews should be doing the burning bush with gardasil
don’t get ill get gardasil
It’s just a grown-up version of “he said butt” or “you said ‘underwear'”.
But not all that grown-up, if you ask me. They’re attempting to be clever, and failing catastrophically.
I was just reading on another blog where someone was cracking on the Maine Tea Party; how completely inept and full of typos and grammatical mistakes and just plain incorrect stuff their public materials are. This kind of thing, in my opinion, is much worse: the deliberate discarding of authorial intent in favor of some gotcha evil interpretation that could be applied to it.
It’s worse than stupid. It’s assuming the other people in the conversation are stupid, plus the explicit assumption of ill intent. It’s evil, is what it is. There’s a “thou shalt not” that addresses this rather directly and admirably, I think.
So who decides what opinions are acceptable and what opinions aren’t?
Ernst makes an excellent point. The asshattery from the student overshadows the asshattery of the Professor, who presumably gets to decide what are acceptable thoughts for people to have.
The only way that story could get any better would be if the aggrieved miss Grunfeld was black and she was offended not because the example was “anti-semitic” but because she understood what he really meant.
Presumably the professor, given it’s his class. And I imagine he bases his own judgments upon a student being able to back up that opinion with some sort of compelling and cogent argument.
That’s not “asshattery.” It’s a statement of fact for the Professor’s classroom.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with having some authority decide that certain propositions are wrong / unacceptable / dangerous: because clearly, giving equal weight to all opinions is merely an intellectually lazy attempt to avoid doing the difficult work of distinguishing between relative values of opinions. You are entitled to your own opinion. You aren’t entitled to have it ruled equal to all others. Because some opinions are just moronic.
I agree. What I want to suggest is that the only way to relate opinions to one another is to allow for potentially unacceptable opinion to be proferred in the first place.
Well, sure, Ernst. You have to proffer them in order for them to be considered and rejected. But that’s a mere rhetorical trick: waiting for it to be offered, then dismissing it after the fact as something that shouldn’t have been uttered in the first place. Space/time/waves etc keep the conclusion necessarily incoherent, but we accept it because we know what is meant by it.
I should add that we’re getting pretty far afield of what I think we can all accept was the professor’s point — namely, that just because you hold a strong opinion doesn’t mean he has to give it the same weight you do, and in fact will be willing to dismiss it entirely if he feels so inclined.
I don’t know enough about him to conclude that he’s some sort of close-minded thought fascist. I can only say that from the exchange as it’s been described, he was simply trying to illustrate a point, and he was rather obviously and absurdly robbed of his intent — a fact that should have convinced any REAL intellectual enterprise to dismiss the charge immediately and scold the accuser.
clearly, giving equal weight to all opinions is merely an intellectually lazy attempt to avoid doing the difficult work of distinguishing between relative values of opinions.
Ditto the faux “all religions are equal” “all cultures are equal” “who are we to judge?” mantras. And more than just lazy, it is really the passive-aggressive way for the Left to attack American principles and institutions.
I’m choosing to read it as an example of petard hoisting and political correctness run amok. But that’s directed at the mores of the academy rather than Professor Johnston per se.
And Social Sciences 1140: “Self, Culture and Society,” sounds like a bullshit class to me.