From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2005 - 13:24:53 GMT
> DMB said:
> > I guess being against degeneracy makes me a conservative in some sense of
> > the word, but my stance toward the political ideology that calls itself
> > conservative in America could be fairly well described as contempt.
>
> Platt replied:
> Speaking of degenerates, nothing fits the bill so well as liberals in
> America. With their politically correct restrictions on free speech and
> their rear guard action to preserve static 1930's social programs, they've
> become the new Victorians. A typical anti-democratic, degenerate liberal
> belief -- the belief that those who voted for conservatives are stupid.
> Good old Victorian snobbery, come around again in the 21st century. And
> like those Victorians of old, today's liberals have made society their God,
> exemplified in their demands for "social justice" and other intrusions into
> individual lives.
>
> dmb says:
> This is exactly the kind of anti-intellectual conservatism that I find so
> comtemptable. Thanks to Platt, there is no need to spell our how Orwellian
> and hateful it is. This kind of conservatism looks more like the confused
> rants of a neurotic with an inferiority complex than it resembles an actual
> ideology, but there it is. Platt is a prime example. There are a million
> guys who would say EXACTLY what he did there.
There you have it, folks, a typical ad hominem attack from a
compassionate, sensitive liberal who, due to intellectual vacuity, finds
it necessary to sling epithets rather than debate ideas on the merits.
Platt
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