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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: carranza2 who wrote (17936)5/8/2006 9:40:44 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (3) of 542749
 
ell, c2, you continue to misstate my statements. The Hitchens-Cole case is not about whether both sides engage in personal attacks but whether there exists a large scale attempt to use personal attacks on commentators some on the right consider "left" wing. Rather than engage the substance of their remarks. So we've been burdened with charges of traitors, anti-semites, "gotcha" quote selection, and so on.

It's a political strategy which appears in the Hitchens-Cole dispute. And should be read as such.

There is much of substance to disagree with one another about Iran, in this case, or the Israeli-Palestinian issues to take another. But these right wing pundits have decided they will not do that. Just personally attack folk who have different views.

And, as a result, serious debate about serious issues is badly damaged.
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