Thursday, April 02, 2015
An Open Letter to Hemlock Andashes and Other "Real" Progressives
There is an interesting article here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/fellow-liberals-dont-harass-the-bigots-please/comments/#disqus
There are a number of interesting comments following it.
But one of the more interesting was this: http://back2theroot.com/2015/04/02/open-letter-to-raw-story-blogger-amanda-marotte-other-faux-progressives/, and I am astonished that I've never heard of back2theroot.com before.
And by "interesting" I mean breathtakingly boring. I don't think this infantile whiner neglected any sophistry, down to and including Godwin's Law.
And by "astonished" I mean that I could not possibly be less surprised.
Dude, when my wife and I were doing cut-and-paste zines in the 1980s, it was typewritten text we were cutting and pasting to make up pages we could print on a photocopier -- we weren't cutting and pasting weary vanguardist tropes so we could feel all "radical" (and yes, I "get" your oh-so-clever play on words...o_0).
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"...There is an interesting article here: [Open Letter to Raw Story Blogger Amanda Marotte & Other Faux Progressives]...And by 'interesting' I mean breathtakingly boring. I don't think this infantile whiner neglected any sophistry, down to and including Godwin's Law."
Gosh, John. I didn't think I'd wedged a Godwin-type reference into my criticism of Morotte's Blog, but I could be wrong (she is, afterall, brownshirting the issue of fedora-wearing...oh, dammit! Let one slip.).
Or maybe you're referring to some other posting on the blog site (which you seem to have found objectionably full of "weary vanguardist tropes.")(Did you intend the irony of using the cliched and overworked 90s litcrit-spoogeword "trope" in your jab at my weary tropes? Brilliant!)
On the one hand, I'm happy you took time to poke around on the site. On the other, I'm sorry the experience seemed to have annoyed you enough to commit a post to. (But thanks for the rare attention!)
Sorry I bored you.
It's hard to stay ahead of the substance and style curve set by trope-busting, lumberjack stylin' message therapists from Pacific Northwest thought centers like the self-admiring Willamette Valley. (Do your clients dig your butch-workingclass cum jaded-intellectual yet sensitively literate shitck--speaking of a walking weary trope)?
Pray, teach me, sir, that I may be up to date!
(Honestly speaking, I did enjoy several posts on you blog, for whatever that's worth...)
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