I'm not that wild about the word; but if people really do want to be snarky, it seems to me they should be describing their opponents' views as meager and hollow, but crisp.
--Posted by Eugene Volokh to The Volokh Conspiracy at 11/11/2003 01:27:45 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
Soros believes that a "supremacist ideology" guides this White House. He hears echoes in its rhetoric of his childhood in occupied Hungary. "When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' it reminds me of the Germans." It conjures up memories, he said, of Nazi slogans on the walls,
David Bernstein's post below reminds me of what I call the "Reverse Mussolini Fallacy": The argument that, because Mussolini (supposedly) made the trains run on time, it's wrong to make the trains run on time.
Of course, it's never put quite that starkly (since then it's visibly absurd), but the
Reading about some of the recent attempts to punish antigay speech, I'm struck by the certainty that such attempts must rest on. Obviously gays can't or shouldn't be reoriented to becoming straights. Obviously gays aren't more likely to be child molesters than straights. Obviously being gay
(as counted by eXTReMe Tracking) yesterday.
--Posted by Eugene Volokh to The Volokh Conspiracy at 11/11/2003 05:42:23 PMPowered by Blogger Pro
