ok so you want to know why i made the pol pot allusion? it was a response to this lovely quip from your boy ace, idyllic:
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Perhaps we should start another thread. It is not the best argument, I simply have a bias against "intellectual" types, and those who leach off of hard working people and then say stuff about how they cling to their guns and religion in a condescending manner.
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and follows because the khmyer rouge had a very similar problem with "intellectuals" who lived in cities in particular but they couldn't really tell who they were so decided that the way to get rid of these "intellectuals" was to track down everyone who lived in a city and wore glasses. which they did. and they sent these people to lovely re-education camps where they learned about how bad it was to be a parasite relative to righteous working people as they were being worked to death. thousands and thousands of nasty people wearing glasses died because of this.
it's churlish to mention this ugly story.
but the above, like much of what's in this thread, is not a conservative argument.
there are many reasonable conservatives who make intelligent thoughtful arguments that one might disagree with but which are worth thinking about. i actually enjoy talking to these folk and even learn things from them.
but those arguments are quite different from the above.
and the situation that this post is about is all the more stupid because it's clear that none of the conservative folk who are all bent about being compared with pol pot know enough about the khmyer rouge to know what the comparison is about.
so perhaps what's happening here is a defense of ignorance.
but that's not conservatism.
that's just fucking ignorance.
if you want to defend being ignorant why not man up and defend that?
dispense with this nonsense about poor me poor conservative me and just say it: i don't know shit about the world i dont know shit about the past i dont know shit about the present and that's ok because it is my particular form of not knowing shit that's at stake here and i own it.
own your ignorance.
go ahead.
it's important.
just don't confuse it with being conservative or being anything at all other that what it is.