THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

DENNIS AND JOE | 2006-07-17

Dennis sums the whole situation up perfectly:

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In all honesty, it is the people who AREN'T repetitive, in the face of the same arguments time and time again, that you need to worry about.

Repetition is the key to getting your point accross, and your political enemies will use repetition. The fact that racial diversity doesn't work, hasn't altered the propaganda promoting it one bit. We are barraged by images racial mixing and diversity and told this is 'the white mans future' again and again, and again and again. After 15-20 years of experiencing this myself (I'm still young, forgive me), they have never tired, and the message isn't any more plausible.

Comment by Dennis

That is the situation I am in. All my life what passed ofr public debate consisted of:

1) Liberals saying silly things and hiding behind an aura os spphisitication and

2) Conservatives taking them seriously and finidng synonyms for "silly" and "sophisticated," using untranslated French to describe liberals nonsense, invening whole vocabularies.

I read Joe's bottom line as saying that I should do what repsetable cosnervatives do. I get the distinct impression that in the middle of an epidemic of pnumonia, Joe would be upset if the doctors didn't take out time to find synonyms for that tired old word "pneumonia."

I have NOT enjoyed living in a world where all discussion stayed the same for fifty years. But the simple fact is that nothing has changed. The dialogie today is exactly the same as it was fifty years ago: people saying silly things and insisting hat we take them seriously because they say they represent sophistication and others taking them seriously. I refuse to give them the benefit of describing something differently that is the same.

When you give them the benefit of synonyms and so forth, you let them off the hook. Buckley has gotten PAID to do this for fifty years. There is a whole industry devoted to this called neoconservatism.

They were silly and covered it with sophisticattion. Now they're silly and cover it with neoconservatism.

I won't do it, Joe.

COMMENTS (5)

#1 Dave | 2006-07-17 20:17

BW has a rare luxury: He can know (as we know), actually know, that his position is destined for victory. Real outcomes are not something opportunists or manipulators can game.

Bill Buckely is a circus performer performing the role of official "intellectual". His kind is endemic to affluent society and Ivy League environments. You know, you go to a party and there are these nitwits discussing "the issues of the day" under rules that you are not supposed to take offense.

But that is the nonsense of polite society. Meanwhile, politics is about people taking offense and that is why it regularly degenerates into bloody violence. But don't tell your Congressman. He doesn't want to think about it.

#2 Shari | 2006-07-17 21:12

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I just briefly saw Oreilly answering letters. Maybe silly isn't the right word, but I'm reminded how you can't answer a fool in his folly, when they care nothing for truth or argument. It's awful when such have the upper hand. Or seem to

#3 joe rorke | 2006-07-18 17:06

Not Spam. One question would be what were you doing living in a world for fifty years where "nothing changed" as you say. This must mean that nothing you did WORKED. For fifty years NOTHING WORKED. Nothing changed means NOTHING WORKED. See? I can play the old twistypoo game too, Bob. And I ain't even a politician or some backroom staffer that worked for one. Twistypoo, twistypoo, lotta fun ain't it? You keep twisting what I say. Well, you do. Admit it. I've never had anyone twist my words around like you do. You gotta be a professional twister. I guess you learn that as a staffer.

So for fifty years there you were banging your head against the wall and NOTHING WORKED. But now all of a sudden something is going to work. I just got back from the local mall. It's working all right. All the diversity you could ask for. Right in your own hometown mall. The Birch Society did great too since 1958. Government's been scaled down right to the bare knuckles. Yeah. Right. Let's see, that's almost fifty years too, ain't it? NOTHINGS WORKED. Just a bunch of jabbering magpies sitting on a telephone wire.

Am I finally beginning to understand why Joe Sobran doesn't return your phone calls?

#4 Pain | 2006-07-18 21:28

NOT SPICED HAM

"1) Liberals saying silly things and hiding behind an aura os spphisitication and

"2) Conservatives taking them seriously and finidng synonyms for "silly" and "sophisticated," using untranslated French to describe liberals nonsense, invening whole vocabularies."

Who is a Liberal or Conservative any more? Aren't they the ones with the teeth on a dish on their nightstands trying hard not to awaken the WWII-generation smiling vapidly in the room down the hall?

#5 Dennis | 2006-07-19 08:40

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Repetition was what Goebbels states, as being the very essence of propaganda. Repetition of tired arguments, is exactly what we get from the 'anti-racist/multiracialist' crowd, and last time, I looked, it worked for them. But they have TV, schools, universities, radio, books, newspapers.