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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (10550)	10/21/1998 5:10:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) of 67261

Hofstadter died long ago, Johannes, long before this particular "culture war" broke out. I will get back to the substance of your post later, after I have had time to digest it. Just wanted to defend a dead man against the charge that he was using ad hominem arguments to discredit people he may never even have heard of. BTW, I used the quotation from Hofstadter (the one you cite) in the context of a discussion of the Nazi phenomenon. I then asked whether that "paranoid style" was prevalent today. The only person I specifically cited as an exemplar was Louis Farrakhan, hardly a representative of the conservative Christian viewpoint. I added that I thought that the true "paranoid style" was a fringe phenomenon, at the moment. However, I still believe that some of the rhetoric , if not the substance of the paranoid style, has seeped into mainstream discourse. jbe

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