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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Rambi who wrote (26573)8/15/2006 1:43:54 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 540962
 
The use of the word "extremist" seems to have caused problems. How about I change it to "people who have gotten too rabid, too angry, too obsessed for me personally"?

Then I don't have to explain myself, which would be a relief, since I feel like that's all i have done this past week on one thread or another and it is starting to depress me.

I hear you. My apologies if I upset you.

So let me explain myself.;-)

I'm bothered by the use of the word "extremist" to characterize perfectly acceptable (but perhaps not one's own) critiques of the present administration. The word is clearly a spin word, meant to say disagreements are unacceptable.

There are certainly some "extremist" views on the left and I've seen Chomsky take a position or two that could qualify. Is the whole body of his political work "extremist"? That's worth an interesting conversation. But one I'm definitely not going to do right now.

As for Krugman and Soros, I don't think I've seen a thing written by either (and I'm a big reader of Krugman) that would qualify. In fact, I've, for different reasons, just skimmed two of Soros' books. They're not particularly good because he spends far too much time elaborating abstraction on top of abstraction. Loses his reader; at least this one. Quickly.

So, where on SI have you been trying to "explain" yourself? If you care to say.
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