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ymarkovИнтересная (мне) статья Матта Уэлча.
Jeff Flake Is a Casualty of Collectivist Conflict
Stop what you're doing right now, and look at the political chatter in your Twitter feed. I would put chances near 100 percent that you will soon see examples of both right-of-center trolling, which I'll loosely define here as saying something designed specifically to irritate and/or outrage the sensibilities of the dominant media/entertainment/Democratic culture; and also left-of-center boundary-drawing, in which a moralist will define virtue or acceptability in such a way that a right-of-center person of interest will inevitably find himself on the outside looking in.
... (R)eality-checking such arguments kinda misses the point of 2017 politics. The subtext of these tweets is more important than the text. It is Look at those arrogant hypocrites and He's not one of us. Responses like mine above can be thus answered with the classic, Musta struck a nerve!
... (T)hat has always been the upside in organized political hatreds, in having "the right enemies"—you can get to unpleasant truths quicker than those who are still laboriously sifting through the facts. Less happily (at least for those still troubled by conscience), you will also quickly pile up falsehoods, while dismissing the individualism of whole swaths of humanity.
Jeff Flake Is a Casualty of Collectivist Conflict
Stop what you're doing right now, and look at the political chatter in your Twitter feed. I would put chances near 100 percent that you will soon see examples of both right-of-center trolling, which I'll loosely define here as saying something designed specifically to irritate and/or outrage the sensibilities of the dominant media/entertainment/Democratic culture; and also left-of-center boundary-drawing, in which a moralist will define virtue or acceptability in such a way that a right-of-center person of interest will inevitably find himself on the outside looking in.
... (R)eality-checking such arguments kinda misses the point of 2017 politics. The subtext of these tweets is more important than the text. It is Look at those arrogant hypocrites and He's not one of us. Responses like mine above can be thus answered with the classic, Musta struck a nerve!
... (T)hat has always been the upside in organized political hatreds, in having "the right enemies"—you can get to unpleasant truths quicker than those who are still laboriously sifting through the facts. Less happily (at least for those still troubled by conscience), you will also quickly pile up falsehoods, while dismissing the individualism of whole swaths of humanity.
