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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 01:40:42 -0800
Sender: •••@••.••• (Jim Hill)
Subject: Re: cj#287> D Anderson re: Nazism & America
In article <v02110106acb7bf9e7902@[194.9.35.154]>, •••@••.••• wrote:
>to characterize us as extremists when we call them on [it]
No, no, no need to get that extreme. Simply treat the objectors as rude.
It's an increasingly common and very effective variant on argument by
appeal to authority.
Reagan did it best: his budget ideas were so stunningly idiotic that the
on-target objections ("voodoo economics", anyone?) sounded lunatic to
those disinclined to look too closely. What a lovely way to get votes.
The New Right is >not< alone in proposing hideous plans. The more hideous
the plan, and the higher the authority behind it, the more effective the
tactic: violate deep principles and offer bland excuses with a few
nightmare words. Terrorism. Drugs (that's pronounced "blacks" in a whole
lot of people's minds). Child Porn.
Thus the lyric: "hope you guess my name." One tends to forget the
well-learned polities.
Jim
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