Friday, March 27, 2009
The ugly left
Glenn Reynolds links to Mickey Kaus, who has gotten his hands on a thread from the JournoList, the putatively but not actually off-the-record discussion group of lefty journalists and bloggers. Read it all for an interesting look inside a subculture that got a lot more influential last election day.
Look, like-minded people say inflammatory, offensive, profane, and (we hope) humorously mocking things when they believe nobody is listening. This is true of men and (I am told) women when they are alone with friends of their own gender, and since politics is increasingly off-limits in normal social settings (because people have gotten so darn angry about fundamentally amusing stuff) people let their hair down when they are among fellow-travelers. All understandable. But let us not have any more of this very common idea (at least among the liberals I know) that it is only conservatives who are classless troglodytes. If the JournoList proves anything, it is that lefties could also use some charm school.
3 Comments:
By 
Escort81, at
Fri Mar 27, 01:50:00 PM:
But let us not have any more of this very common idea (at least among the liberals I know) that it is only conservatives who are classless troglodytes.
We are all sinners!
By ScottJ, at
Fri Mar 27, 03:06:00 PM:
Kind of like the chicken/egg conundrum. Which came first, Political Correctness or the loss of our collective sense of humor?
By vanderleun, at
Fri Mar 27, 05:04:00 PM:
"Which came first, Political Correctness or the loss of our collective sense of humor?"
Jimmy Carter.
