Comments on: Eliminationism

By: House of Eratosthenes

House of Eratosthenes — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:29:21 +0000

[...] They’re jokes used by Ann Coulter, or they’re All In The Family re-runs. Quoting Skip Mendler, commenter #8, on the original post over at Cassy’s place: Reminds me of that Star Trek episode where the Enterprise crew and a bunch of Klingons find [...]

By: Morgan Freeberg

Morgan Freeberg — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:28:38 +0000

I’ve seen a lot of conservatives wanting to get rid of people not like them — in fiction.

I wonder how the balance works once you deal only with reality. Can the stereotype survive if we eliminate Archie Bunker, Col. Flagg, Darth Vader, your Klingons…etc. etc. etc. And then there’s that pesky reality stuff, like the hush-Rush law. Not fiction.

By: Skip Mendler

Skip Mendler — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:05:55 +0000

>>Funny how both sides think the other side is Eliminationist.

Isn’t that interesting? Reminds me of that Star Trek episode where the Enterprise crew and a bunch of Klingons find themselves stuck on a ship, unable to escape, and armed with nothing but swords – and the ability to resuscitate after being killed. Turned out that their fighting was being staged by an alien race that fed off of their hatred.

But having said that, I do think that a semantic analysis of, say, Hannity/Savage/Coulter/Limbaugh vs. – oh, let’s see, what would be a fair comparison to those folks? Al Franken? Ted Rall? Mark Morford? Whoever – short of some hardcore Stalinist talking about lining up the bosses against the wall, I don’t think you’d find as much violent imagery/fantasy in liberal writings and commentary. Remember, we’re the namby-pamby Kumbaya folks who want to get along with everybody, right? (And who get ridiculed for that kind of attitude, I might add.)

By: Morgan K Freeberg

Morgan K Freeberg — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:52:58 +0000

Quite alright, Mr. David. I was noticing when you view these things from the main page it tells you who wrote them, but once you click into the discussion thread it doesn’t anymore. And of course there is our hostess’ grinning visage in the masthead. And the place is named after her, and there’s the matter that she’s much prettier than I am.

Perfectly understandable on your part.

I don’t know why the names disappear like that. Whether that’s a problem that has to be fixed is a call she’ll have to make.

By: J David

J David — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:42:27 +0000

My deepest, sincerest, most humiliated apology to Morgan Freeburg, whose name I see, now, is under the post…and a hearty compliment on the Bullshit article…What a mind-tickler that was to read! WOW!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:29:02 +0000

I just sat and read all of Orcinus’ comments, and I find it so interesting how both the Right and the Left clearly see the other side’s faults. I read your Boy Scout example with a nodding head, and then read Orcinus and saw all the nodding heads in his comments (bolstered by anti-Rush, anti-guns, anti-Bush stuff.)

No real insight here on my part; just I’m always interested in reading Left Wing echo chambers and seeing the things they take for granted. And realizing how differently they see the world from how I see it.

Funny how both sides think the other side is Eliminationist.

By: Robert Arvanitis

Robert Arvanitis — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:29:41 +0000

Excellent post.

In the Wiki definition: “Politics is one kind of process by which groups of people make decisions…”

So real politics is about making decisions, finding trade-offs, working with other groups.

That means liberal-eliminationism is not a form of politics, but rather a species of army ant.

By: J David

J David — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:06:50 +0000

That is really a spectacular piece of work, Cassie! It is a demonstration of one of the things I believe *thinking* women are especially good at, which is *analysis*.

The articulate description, and dissection of, and ideological- philosophical approach to, politics as part of greater existence, as opposed to politics as a TOOL with which to strike down enemies, and slay then completely, so that their troublesome ethics are no longer buzzing irritatingly around disturbing ones licentious “immediate gratification”.

By: Anon 1:50

Anon 1:50 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:22:33 +0000

Excellent piece of work!

As I roll it over in my brain, so many of the liberal, uh progressive behaviors, mindsets and talking points slot into place it is uncanny!

I wonder what the Eliminationists will say about this?

By: House of Eratosthenes

House of Eratosthenes — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:02:00 +0000

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