From: Wade Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Mon 09 Dec 2002 - 20:26:40 GMT
On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 02:39 PM, A and B Vitale wrote:
> therefore:
> LEFT=ideas that have no associated, successful institutions;
> inability to
> achieve popular support because it is excluded from the media
> (examples:
> nader excluded from debates, moore's books kept out of certain
> bookstores,
> NPR still dominated by the non-left)
Again, here in the People's Republik, I am surrounded by
institutions with popular support that are quite left-leaning,
and there is still a communist bookstore here, as well as gay
and a lesbian ones.
> NON-LEFT=ideas that are prevalent in culture and supported by
> successful
> institutions; popularly supported because it has the support of
> the media
> (examples: most talk shows on radio and tv)
These non-left ideas are precisely the ones excoriated
hereabouts. Check out any local newspaper or election.
> i think the notion that "the Left is quite readily heard" should be
> qualified with "if you can wrestle yourself away from almost all public
> media."
And yet again, the left is not only quite readily heard here, it
is almost the only voice one hears here, in all the public
media. Then again, I read the Voice with some regularity, and
not the Des Moines Register.
Location, location, location....
> it's those "normal americans" who
> become lefties that scare the non-left...
I suppose that is similar to most anti-gay sentiment, as well.
But, the core of your argument is the 'anti' sentiment, and,
yes, I agree with Joe- the 'anti' rhetoric is pretty equally
heard, since those with anger tend to be loud.
- Wade
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