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2006-08-11 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Mike 2006-08-11 07:16|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Allways seeking consensus forces people to extremes in order to move the argument their way.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2006-08-11 10:39|| 2006-08-11 10:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Not to go all Leninist and everything, but the subjective attitude of pacifism is objectively anti-West. The refusal to take sides is objectively anti-West. The belief that the West is always the 6'4", 220 lbs. dude and every potential enemy is always the tiny dog tugging at our pants leg is objectively anti-West and racist.

The "West" is a set of shared values about government, collective defense, rights of citizens, sovereignty, inviobility of borders, etc. When you throw out Westphalia and the right to self-defense, and and start hiring large numbers of stringers that don't support your self-professed code of of journalistic ethics (and refuse to edit their submissions since that might be racist), you are being ant-West.

Posted by 11A5S 2006-08-11 12:46|| 2006-08-11 12:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Lileks is right on with this. It's a shorter, more concise version of what Goldberg wrote in "Bias".

The media "thing" regarding their distaste for western exceptionalism isn't a conspiracy, it's a confluence of purpose of a million journalists. Nobody met in a dark alley to come up with a plot. Nobody had to.

Posted by no mo uro 2006-08-11 14:43|| 2006-08-11 14:43|| Front Page Top

#4 NMU: Can't remember who coined the phrase, but I believe the phenomenon is called "the herd of independent minds."

Posted by Mike 2006-08-11 14:57|| 2006-08-11 14:57|| Front Page Top

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