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bodyhammer:
if you can't even manage to get the terms straight from the post above, what is the point of responding?
the ***structure*** of the central conservative arguments--the arguments on top of which all others are assembled---the ones that define who the "we" is--these arguments are transposed racism.
the claim is that this transposition is a fundamental to the appeal of this ideology.
i explained how i understood the logic to work.
short of drawing pictures, i dont know how to make this clearer.
it would be nice--just once--to see someone from the right actually address a critique of how the arguments that underpin their position actually work rather than what usually happens--which is what you do--attempt to dodge the entire problem by a kind of facile term substitution, which amounts to little more than an elementary school playground trick---which you obviously know---i know you are but what am i?
given this, i must say that it is really really difficult sometimes to not look at conservative forms of argument, look at how folk who are committed to them "bear witness" in the evangelical christian sense (you bear witness in your actions to what christ means to you---what the beliefs are is what others see in you, what you perform--you are yourself, in your actions, in your arguments, what christianity is) but if i looked at conservatism that way, i would have to conclude that it is a form of socially sanctioned idiocy--most of the arguments from the right on this thread--not all, but most--are simply idiotic. as are those examples of rovethought that prompted the thread in the first place.
a fine form of politics you represent.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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