If someone wants to describe my position as "Right Wing" or "Pro-War" I don't consider it totally accurate, but I understand where the poster is coming from, and don't take offense at it.
Hmm, I don't see much need for either label. Generally, it's not the term but the context in which the term is used, that's the problem. Your use in that particular post conveyed the message that critics of the Bush administration's Iraq plans were mindlessly so, mindlessly anti-war. The equivalent, of course, is to label supporters, mindlessly pro-war. Works both ways.
As for how to label protest movements and participants, we've done this one to death. I've talked about the political tactics of labeling participants motives by the acts of some participants or organizers as only a political strategy. And an objectionable one.
But when it is pointed out just who these people were, you holler, "McCarthyism! , instead of saying the people who showed up got suckered.
Hmmmm. Seems to be exactly the problem I'm talking about. |
