roachboy

again, i think that to pretend that what's at issue here is some abstract pseudo-ethical problem with violence in political discourse in general is to allow the right to continue doing exactly as it's doing with its poujadiste wing....to exclude the context of utterances, to exclude the mechanisms of dissemination and the effects of mass media repetition is to render the question of consequence meaningless because you've erased the delivery system and that system is a very considerable aspect of the problem.


it's not as though there isn't a tradition of revolutionary rhetoric that's particular to the left, and were we in a situation where metaphysical considerations were of interest to the exclusion of everything else (in which case, position AND delivery system AND reception all would be excluded entirely so that conservatives in the united states can avoid questions that follow from the functioning of the media apparatus that tells them what their opinions are) maybe there's be some tisk tisk tisk that would result....but it's a meaningless exercise.

this is not an abstract situation: this is a dominant media apparatus in the united states....


btw discourse analysis generally centers on determining regularities across an ideological form---but it doesn't work to the exclusion of medium. only american conservatives who are looking to deflect questions do that.

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