Comments on: we need a montage! http://positdesign.com/2009/10/we-need-a-montage/ the online home of christine bower Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:38:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Yellow Top http://positdesign.com/2009/10/we-need-a-montage/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Yellow Top Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:42:00 +0000 http://positdesign.com/2009/?p=1646#comment-135 I'd be curious what you think. (It's not a very extensive effort at this point.) http://georgegarrol.wordpress.com/ I’d be curious what you think. (It’s not a very extensive effort at this point.)

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]]> By: Yellow Top http://positdesign.com/2009/10/we-need-a-montage/comment-page-1/#comment-133 Yellow Top Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:38:48 +0000 http://positdesign.com/2009/?p=1646#comment-133 First of all, props, no mad props, to Godwin and to you for inventing and introducing me to this law, respectively, I had never heard of it before, but will be referring to it on average 87.5 times a day from now on. Secondly, rhetorical similarity aside, very good point about the contradiction of Obama being communist/fascist at the same time which hasn't got ridiculed nearly enough (I say for consistency's sake alone they should figure out which one they think he is and stick to it) and you are also very apt in pointing out that the right has far outpaced the left in it's violation rate. (Although it is a bit ironic that you point that out their through the roof violation rate on the heels of your own violation :) First of all, props, no mad props, to Godwin and to you for inventing and introducing me to this law, respectively, I had never heard of it before, but will be referring to it on average 87.5 times a day from now on.

Secondly, rhetorical similarity aside, very good point about the contradiction of Obama being communist/fascist at the same time which hasn’t got ridiculed nearly enough (I say for consistency’s sake alone they should figure out which one they think he is and stick to it) and you are also very apt in pointing out that the right has far outpaced the left in it’s violation rate. (Although it is a bit ironic that you point that out their through the roof violation rate on the heels of your own violation :)

]]> By: christine http://positdesign.com/2009/10/we-need-a-montage/comment-page-1/#comment-131 christine Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:42:58 +0000 http://positdesign.com/2009/?p=1646#comment-131 It's really only the fringe-crazies who seem to do this: Karl Rove's Dolchstoß, Glenn Beck comparing Obama and Pelosi to vampires, etc. Did you click through to my explication-post? As a student of political philosophy and specifically European totalitarianism (undergrad and grad-school), I'm very aware that it can exist across the political spectrum. And, setting aside the fact that "left-wing fascism" is by definition an oxymoron, the right-wing demogogic fringe really is the main violator of Godwin's Law at the moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law It’s really only the fringe-crazies who seem to do this: Karl Rove’s Dolchstoß, Glenn Beck comparing Obama and Pelosi to vampires, etc.

Did you click through to my explication-post? As a student of political philosophy and specifically European totalitarianism (undergrad and grad-school), I’m very aware that it can exist across the political spectrum. And, setting aside the fact that “left-wing fascism” is by definition an oxymoron, the right-wing demogogic fringe really is the main violator of Godwin’s Law at the moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

]]> By: Yellow Top http://positdesign.com/2009/10/we-need-a-montage/comment-page-1/#comment-129 Yellow Top Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:12:23 +0000 http://positdesign.com/2009/?p=1646#comment-129 Whoops, looks like it posted twice. Whoops, looks like it posted twice.

]]> By: Yellow Top http://positdesign.com/2009/10/we-need-a-montage/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Yellow Top Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:10:33 +0000 http://positdesign.com/2009/?p=1646#comment-128 Yes, there are parallels that run through right-wing rhetoric from America to Italy to Sweden, but it's a wide umbrella and this doesn't have to equal a shift towards totalitarianism. The difference is whether those who hold these views are willing to kill their countrymen for them, and, more importantly, live in the kind of system that would allow them to do so. (Luckily, in America, Italy, and Sweden this is not the case.) You can find just as many parallels between statements by Democrats and Communists (in fact I do, all the time, since, admittedly, the pendulum of my pet peeves swings more often in the other direction, you know been there done that, type of thing :) http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/06/25/winner-4/ Yes, there are parallels that run through right-wing rhetoric from America to Italy to Sweden, but it’s a wide umbrella and this doesn’t have to equal a shift towards totalitarianism. The difference is whether those who hold these views are willing to kill their countrymen for them, and, more importantly, live in the kind of system that would allow them to do so. (Luckily, in America, Italy, and Sweden this is not the case.)

You can find just as many parallels between statements by Democrats and Communists (in fact I do, all the time, since, admittedly, the pendulum of my pet peeves swings more often in the other direction, you know been there done that, type of thing :)

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/06/25/winner-4/

]]> By: Yellow Top http://positdesign.com/2009/10/we-need-a-montage/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Yellow Top Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:10:32 +0000 http://positdesign.com/2009/?p=1646#comment-127 Yes, there are parallels that run through right-wing rhetoric from America to Italy to Sweden, but it's a wide umbrella and this doesn't have to equal a shift towards totalitarianism. The difference is whether those who hold these views are willing to kill their countrymen for them, and, more importantly, live in the kind of system that would allow them to do so. (Luckily, in America, Italy, and Sweden this is not the case.) You can find just as many parallels between statements by Democrats and Communists (in fact I do, all the time, since, admittedly, the pendulum of my pet peeves swings more often in the other direction, you know been there done that, type of thing :) http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/06/25/winner-4/ Yes, there are parallels that run through right-wing rhetoric from America to Italy to Sweden, but it’s a wide umbrella and this doesn’t have to equal a shift towards totalitarianism. The difference is whether those who hold these views are willing to kill their countrymen for them, and, more importantly, live in the kind of system that would allow them to do so. (Luckily, in America, Italy, and Sweden this is not the case.)

You can find just as many parallels between statements by Democrats and Communists (in fact I do, all the time, since, admittedly, the pendulum of my pet peeves swings more often in the other direction, you know been there done that, type of thing :)

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/06/25/winner-4/

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