July 12, 2006
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Because of the LACK OF DENUNCIATION!
I want to make it clear that I denounce outrageous comments by over-the-top bloggers.
Furthermore, I disapprove of those bloggers who fail to denounce outrageous comments by over-the-top bloggers who may otherwise share the political positions of those bloggers who fail to denounce...them.
I want to add that I deplore the lack of condemnation in the blogosphere of such bloggers who fail to denounce said outrageous comments.
I also find it regrettable that many bloggers are not deploring, disapproving and denouncing soon enough after, respectively, the lack of condemnation, failures to denounce and said outrageous comments.
I just want to make that perfectly clear.
P.S. More re-allocation of condemnation here. After all, lack of regret, deploring, disapproval or denunciation amounts to being objectively pro-outrageous, pro-lack of condemnation or pro-non-denunciation. And we can't have that.
Perhaps a '2X4 upside the head' is in order.
In case you aren't following: Outrageous comments -->denunciation, failure to denounce-->condemnation or disapproval, failure to condemn and disapproving-->deplore, failure to deplore-->regrettable. Hmm, is regret not strong enough?
Posted by Mindles H. Dreck at July 12, 2006 2:47 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound linksWell said, Jane. You made that perfectly clear, in a very opaque, mud-like manner.
It is from heights of profundity evidenced by posts like this one that we have come not only to appreciate but to love Mindles Dreck!
I deplore, denounce, regret, and disapprove of mindless dreck. Mindles H. Dreck* is a pretty good guy, though.
I would just like to take this opportunity to denounce the absurd practice of holding me to the standard to which hold my ideological opponents. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Also, I'm cashing in my Hardee's coupon, which exempts me from the next two rounds of "Why hasn't THE LEFT already denounced this self-evidently contemptable statement or action?"
Lord, do I not miss blogging.
Sometimes, the actions of the Supreme Court make me want to choke the living sh*t out of all of them for being total morons (like the Kelo decison that enables the Fed to just buy your personal property for a price that they deem appropriate to just turn around and sell it to another private party who will make a profit because that party promises more tax revenue generated from the property.) That decision made me want to scream. But in reality, I didn't want all nine (or even five) of the Supremes hanged until their necks snapped.
I can snap their necks just finw when I am choking them, thankyouverymuch.
;-D
Thank you for treating this with the seriousness it deserves.
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I think all right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary decent right thinking people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I for one am not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am.
What it really illustrates is the danger of listening to Democrats who apologize for being Democrats who apologize for leaning toward the Republicans who apologize for being out of touch with the bloggers who apologize for Bush's many mistakes, but continue to support the supporters of his social agenda who demand apologies from the netroots activists who refuse to apologize for farting in a warm room.
As Billy Bob Thornton said in "A Simple Plan":
"Well, that's fucked up.
Yeah, the whole outrage and denunciation thing gets tiring after a while! Instead of D&O, I just let those things float by like a soap bubble, and engage in mild bemusement.
Good laugh, mindles dreck! Thanks for the chuckle.
My God, this reads like an Andrew Sullivan post, what with the regretting, deploring, outrage, disapproving, and whatnot. It's only a short step from here to gob-smacking vileness, or something.
May I not mildly deprecate? You demur?
Jeff was right! That IS funny. It is amazing how the actual point gets lost in the middle of all the recriminations. Of course, that IS the point for some.
I hereby condemn everyone for saying everything.
I will occasionally be de-condemning certain carefully selected utterances; for example, that thing Jane wrote about the deficit may turn out to be all right, but further study is needed. Can't be too careful!
Well, I talk to a lot of people, and I'm convinced that the vast majority of wrong-thinking people are right!
Somebody's been spending too much time reading blogs.
I don't know how much of the New Hysteria that now passes for the Democrat Party one can look at anymore without beginning to lose faith in one's own mind.
At times like this, I go read a book. Right now it's Marcus Aurelius. Also, The Popolvuh seems to be as good a guide to current liberal thought as anything else, and it's got cartoons.
So I guess this means The Rittenhouse Review will be linking to you again.
(For those who weren't reading blogs about, oh, 3 years ago, The Rittenhouse Review was the pretentious name of some blog by some guy whose only claim to fame was taking great public umbrage when people linked to sites he considered beyond the pale-- like Little Green Footballs-- and making a big noise about his delinking them. Which is why no one reads Instapundit any more, there's no link on The Rittenhouse Review to it...)
Yes, but I don't want you to denounce the "outrageous comments" themselves but the thinking behind them that results in those comments. Those anti-factual beliefs that lead to the kind of comments and behaviors that are objectionable.
Thus if you are Muslim and a fellow Muslim calls for the murder and subjegation of others on the authority of Mohammed's teachings then I want you to disown those teachings, and not just the comments that were the direct result of them. Certain, actions follow like night on day from certain beliefs. If you believe that infidels are inferior then of course that is going to occasionally lead you to bad behavior under certain circumstances. Behavior like having blaspheme laws, infidelity laws, conversion laws that punish people for not thinking your way.
Believing that others who don't believe as you do are evil is very different than believing that other people who do evil are evil. It's perfectly acceptable to think badly and act those beliefs if it is true. Thus if it is factually established that someone is a murderer then it is perfectly acceptable to lock him up. That is only because they are true and based on evidence, not faith.
Gross overgeneralizations like "All Jews are greedy" are inherently flawed and will sometimes lead to bad behavor in response to the imagined guilt of the Jews. The Koran makes such statements and it is these beliefs that need to be condemned, denounced, and clearly renounced.
The problem is people self identify as believing this stuff without question, with faith, as infallible. Thus the targeted populations of such propaganda and dehumanization, the non-believers, need assurances that this vile broadbrush slander is not being repeated in Mosques and is clearly identified as error, and even outright lies on the part of the authors of the Koran. If muslim religious teachers are not doing this then they are acting as negligent participants in the kind of evil acts that naturally result from such beliefs.
The same goes for a lot of other ideologies. If you truly believe that capitalism is evil then of course you are going to tend to think that Bush is the new Hitler. If you believe the kinds of fabrications that a Chomsky makes then you'll think a communist Cambodia under a Pol Pot is heaven while the U.S. is a warmongering hellhole responsible for 99% of the worlds problems. Not saying it will happen with certainty, since beliefs are intertwined and complex. But it is anti-factual belief that will lead you in that direction. People act on their beliefs.
So if you share an anti-factual belief that has lead someone else to commit an heinous act then yes well I do want you to denounce that belief.
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