when i wrote this yesterday (i think):
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redbaiting is a fine old tradition of american conservatives. the way the left is characterized in conservative discourse is nothing more, less or different. it's what made mccarthy famous--and we know what folk like ann coulter think of mccarthy.redbaiting: its fun, its exciting, and it doesnt require an actual empirical correlate. its never about the actual left anyway, whatever that might be: its about helping conservatives draw a line between the inside and outside their ideological world.
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i had in mind nonsense like the preceding "critiques" of cuba.
in particular that there is no requirement that anyone on teh right have the faintest idea what they are talking about, no need to present the slightest information: cuba is commie and therefore bad in every way.
i am not a particular fan of castro--but i woudl doubt seriously that any of the conservative folk above could prove--were they to decide for a minute on the subject of the left that proof was actually required--that the american sanctions of cuba have not gone a long long way to creating the conditions that they complain about--complain without actually producing any information, of course.