Comments on: Finally, some conservative common sense on the DHS terror threat report http://www.skepticrats.com/2009/04/19/finally-some-conservative-common-sense-on-the-dhs-terror-threat-report/ You expect us to believe that? Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:01:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Robert L. www.neolibertarian.com http://www.skepticrats.com/2009/04/19/finally-some-conservative-common-sense-on-the-dhs-terror-threat-report/comment-page-1/#comment-458 Robert L. www.neolibertarian.com Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:05:00 +0000 http://www.skepticrats.com/?p=1341#comment-458 The right tends to over react to these things but there is an underlying dynamic that needs to be addressed. The left is saying "relax, the report is only talking about extremists" but then routinely categorizes huge numbers of conservatives as "the extreme right wing." Try to find some left wing discourse on, for instance, the religious right that does not include words like "radical" or "extreme" Another example would be any left wing discussion of the Thomas/Scalia wing of SCOTUS. Then there's Axelrod's follow up comment that the tea parties are "unhealthy" <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/19/axelrod-the-tea-party-movement-could-be-unhealthy/" rel="nofollow">In the words of Hot Air</a>: "Even so, his intent is clear — to delegitimize the parties by framing them as a shot across the bow from some sort of <strong>inchoate militia.</strong>" (my emphasis added. I think using the occasion to talk about, and maybe even try to deal with, the polarization issue would have been much more productive though. The right tends to over react to these things but there is an underlying dynamic that needs to be addressed. The left is saying “relax, the report is only talking about extremists” but then routinely categorizes huge numbers of conservatives as “the extreme right wing.”

Try to find some left wing discourse on, for instance, the religious right that does not include words like “radical” or “extreme” Another example would be any left wing discussion of the Thomas/Scalia wing of SCOTUS.

Then there’s Axelrod’s follow up comment that the tea parties are “unhealthy” In the words of Hot Air: “Even so, his intent is clear — to delegitimize the parties by framing them as a shot across the bow from some sort of inchoate militia.” (my emphasis added.

I think using the occasion to talk about, and maybe even try to deal with, the polarization issue would have been much more productive though.

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