http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2004/11/16/urban-archipelago/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=urban-archipelago A journal of geekery, music and joy Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:04:56 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/2004/11/16/urban-archipelago/#comment-952 brad Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/wordpress/?p=2140#comment-952 it descended into the pointless name calling of us 'reds.' Labelling all reds racist, sexist, xenophobic blah blah blah exhibits the same obstinant close mindedness that it assigns to those of us who have different points of view than the 'blues.' It's this kind of arrogant snobbery that lost Kerry the election, and prevents any real discussion from taking place. As long as that's a prevailing attitude of those on the left things won't be changing any time soon. They will continue to fail to sell their ideas to the people they should be reaching out to, and alienate themselves in the marketplace of ideas. it descended into the pointless name calling of us ‘reds.’ Labelling all reds racist, sexist, xenophobic blah blah blah exhibits the same obstinant close mindedness that it assigns to those of us who have different points of view than the ‘blues.’ It’s this kind of arrogant snobbery that lost Kerry the election, and prevents any real discussion from taking place. As long as that’s a prevailing attitude of those on the left things won’t be changing any time soon. They will continue to fail to sell their ideas to the people they should be reaching out to, and alienate themselves in the marketplace of ideas.

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