Feminism

[lynxreign]

You know, I like Salon.com for the most part. Sure, they buy into the panic over Obama a little too much, but they have columnists I like and tend to run stories I enjoy.

However, they keep publishing Camille Paglia (or Camille Schlafly as I like to call her). Normally I'm fine with a publication printing someone with whom I disagree, but not her. Why? Because she's a liar through and through. She claims to be a liberal, but nothing she says other than "I'm a liberal" shows it. It is the "I'm one of you, don't we just SUCK?" that I object to.

Currently her Trojan Horse article's lead-in is "Palin is a feminist! No, really!" Salon should just publish someone who admits to being a right-winger and be done with it. Yes, she only gets printed once a month, but it still irks me. Be honest about who you are.

It does seem to be of a piece with modern conservatism though. Lie, lie about your lies and if you get caught telling the truth, go lie about it in public. Half the neo-conservatives are ex-Stalinists, but they'd never admit that. It would just be nice if the media were acutally interested in presenting the truth instead of providing a platform for these bastards.

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[cityofbeige.livejournal.com]

alf the neo-conservatives are ex-Stalinists
I thought they were ex-Trotskyists. William Irving Kristol helped found the movement when he was with a bunch of Trotskyists as a student. The subtle difference between Stalin and Trotsky is that Trotsky wanted to spread communism around the world via "democracy", hence why neo-cons are still hellbent on spreading "democracy" around the world.

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

Interesting, I'd always heard Stalinists, hence their fetishization of authority.

[lynxreign.livejournal.com]

Of course, I'm deriving this from Andrew Sullivan, who I'd seen described as an ex-Stalinist.

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

The only person on Salon that I read with any frequency is Glenn Greenwald. Most days I like his work, but lately he's been repeating the mantra of "we'd better watch out or we're gonna lose this thing" as if the sky was about to fall. While I understand he likes to think of that as the voice of reason, I think he's jumping the gun a bit. I mean, it's been just a few weeks since the conventions, there haven't even been any debates, and already he's pulling the OMGWEMIGHTLOSE shtick. Kind of annoying really.

Although I have to give him props for reporting on the St. Paul protesters getting arrested before they even did anything, when very few else were. ;)

[emmalyon.livejournal.com]

I tried, really tried, to read her book years ago. I had to give up, not only because of her ridiculousness, but because it was BAD. As in poorly written. It was hurting my brains.