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i can understand your position that maher's tactics perpetuate, or rely on, the present homophobia in our society...but how else could it be done? He obviously wanted to beef up ratings, but I don't see how that's substantially different than any other talking head.
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i dont know.
i am deeply ambivalent about this.
were i in a situation like maher's, i dont know that i would go there at all.
the ratings boost thing seems to me an external criterion that would function as an outside pressure to go with a questionable tactic.
i understand your main arguments, pigglet, and agree with them up to the point of implementation. at that point, you have to travel outside the logic of the tactic itself, and that is where things get dicey in my view.
because i dont really see how maher could possibly proceed on these lines in a way that does not function in a manner wholly at odds with what i take the tactic to be about.
it looks to me like a loose/loose scenario.