I tend to disregard any comment which uses the word 'fascist' to refer to people who are not actually fascists. It's the equivalent of 'conspiracy theorist', and has been useless since at least 1946. If we can't accurately pin down what people are and what they do, we are just name-calling. 'Satanic', by the way, is even worse - and I sp…
I tend to disregard any comment which uses the word 'fascist' to refer to people who are not actually fascists. It's the equivalent of 'conspiracy theorist', and has been useless since at least 1946. If we can't accurately pin down what people are and what they do, we are just name-calling. 'Satanic', by the way, is even worse - and I speak as a Christian.
I would be no fan of the Heritage Foundation or its views, but to associate it with the brownshirts, and also to attempt to smear Christians by association with it, is not helping anything anywhere. It only reflects on you.
In my view, people on all sides should try to calm down and call a spade a spade (rather than a 'fascist'). Then we might see what was happening. It's hard enough as it is, without the hysteria.
One reason I appreciate Rhyd's writing is that, while we come from quite different places, he is a man who tries to accurately portray the world and say what he means. If he disagrees, he tends to do so calmly and with an explanation. This kind of thing is much needed from all quarters.
This comment here, and then coming from a person who called the entire modern left "consumed by something that looks more like a bunch of vicious, mindless, ideologically crazy brownshirts" and "a poison in the veins of the culture"?
Fair comment, that was hyperbolic language. But the word 'consumed' was the key word. It feels to me that the left has been eaten by something bad and dangerous. Not that everyone 'on the left' is like this - obviously they're not, or Rhyd would not be under attack himself. But the lunatics have taken over the asylum, and I do see 'the left' as a whole as a poison at this point. Personally I think this was always likely - because it happens throughout history. But it also happens to other politics tribes, and regularly to religions.
I tend to disregard any comment which uses the word 'fascist' to refer to people who are not actually fascists. It's the equivalent of 'conspiracy theorist', and has been useless since at least 1946. If we can't accurately pin down what people are and what they do, we are just name-calling. 'Satanic', by the way, is even worse - and I speak as a Christian.
I would be no fan of the Heritage Foundation or its views, but to associate it with the brownshirts, and also to attempt to smear Christians by association with it, is not helping anything anywhere. It only reflects on you.
In my view, people on all sides should try to calm down and call a spade a spade (rather than a 'fascist'). Then we might see what was happening. It's hard enough as it is, without the hysteria.
One reason I appreciate Rhyd's writing is that, while we come from quite different places, he is a man who tries to accurately portray the world and say what he means. If he disagrees, he tends to do so calmly and with an explanation. This kind of thing is much needed from all quarters.
This comment here, and then coming from a person who called the entire modern left "consumed by something that looks more like a bunch of vicious, mindless, ideologically crazy brownshirts" and "a poison in the veins of the culture"?
Fair comment, that was hyperbolic language. But the word 'consumed' was the key word. It feels to me that the left has been eaten by something bad and dangerous. Not that everyone 'on the left' is like this - obviously they're not, or Rhyd would not be under attack himself. But the lunatics have taken over the asylum, and I do see 'the left' as a whole as a poison at this point. Personally I think this was always likely - because it happens throughout history. But it also happens to other politics tribes, and regularly to religions.