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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (11215)	2/8/2006 12:26:14 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541474

Thanks for commenting. You're welcome. But, in my view, that frame is one of the basic methodologies for political spin these days. And one of the ones that is destroying serious discussion about policy. The method is simple and employed in SI as well. Pick some objectionable character trait displayed by some members of a group and then wrongly attribute it to the group. You can do that with the left, the right, the center, any religious group, any ethnic group (though here it's called stereotyping and vigorously frowned upon), whatever. Now that we've learned it and we've learned that it is effective, it's simply a part of political discourse now. And we are all the worse for it. End of sermon.