http://tete-tete-tete.com/488/pelosi-on-mccainhagee/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:46:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://tete-tete-tete.com/488/pelosi-on-mccainhagee/#comment-38537 libhomo Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:05:19 +0000 http://tete-tete-tete.com/488/pelosi-on-mccainhagee/#comment-38537 When bigots are ignored, they build their bases of support unchallenged. When bigots are ignored, they build their bases of support unchallenged.

]]> http://tete-tete-tete.com/488/pelosi-on-mccainhagee/#comment-38492 Buck Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:17:55 +0000 http://tete-tete-tete.com/488/pelosi-on-mccainhagee/#comment-38492 That's the thing about "the circle of civilized debate". Not enough of it is civilized. That’s the thing about “the circle of civilized debate”. Not enough of it is civilized.

]]> http://tete-tete-tete.com/488/pelosi-on-mccainhagee/#comment-38485 Volunteer Voters » Lines Of Permissible Support Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:39:15 +0000 http://tete-tete-tete.com/488/pelosi-on-mccainhagee/#comment-38485 [...] Smijer thinks that if Barack Obama must denounce Louis Farrakhan’s support then so to should John McCain denounce the support of his controversial clerical boosters. However, he also wonders whether either one should be filling quite as much space in the newshole as they are: It seems obvious that if Obama is required to denounce and reject Farrakhan’s endorsement, then the same should be expected of McCain with respect to Hagee. But is it really the case that the behaviors of Farrakhan and Hagee, both honest representations of their own strongly held beliefs, are so far outside the “circle of civilized debate” in our society as to merit all this bother? I don’t know. I suppose it is one way to marginalize radicalism, if prominent persons do take care to decry the bad behavior of their own natural political allies. And, yeah - marginalization is a good way to deal with bad behavior - so that it doesn’t spread like a bad meme. [...] [...] Smijer thinks that if Barack Obama must denounce Louis Farrakhan’s support then so to should John McCain denounce the support of his controversial clerical boosters. However, he also wonders whether either one should be filling quite as much space in the newshole as they are: It seems obvious that if Obama is required to denounce and reject Farrakhan’s endorsement, then the same should be expected of McCain with respect to Hagee. But is it really the case that the behaviors of Farrakhan and Hagee, both honest representations of their own strongly held beliefs, are so far outside the “circle of civilized debate” in our society as to merit all this bother? I don’t know. I suppose it is one way to marginalize radicalism, if prominent persons do take care to decry the bad behavior of their own natural political allies. And, yeah - marginalization is a good way to deal with bad behavior - so that it doesn’t spread like a bad meme. [...]

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