> at the presnet moment, I agree with you. But the history
> of the left has more than its share of dogmatism,
> irrationality, and craziness. Try suggesting on most
> college campus that things like, say, the relative aptitudes
> of men and women in different fields in an empiracal
> question and should be studied scientifically. You will be
> shouted down by leftist, "progressive" feminists.
> The response will be just as emotional and non-rational.
> There's a strong ant-sciene bias in modern American
> liberalism, resistance to ideas about the inheritance of
> temerpment or personality, the primacy of biology over
> culture, etc. etc. The right has just been more blantant,
> more vocal and more ludicrous in their attacks on science,
> but they don't have a monopoly on it.
> Olin
Certainly there are didactic, righteous, dogmatists leftists, Olin, but when
they get emotional they don't usually deliberately lie. Michael Moore uses
context to advance his arguments, but his premise is usually spot on. Here in
Los Angeles, KPFK is extremely biased. The leftist media often ignores, or
even justifies tactics used by Palestinian "freedom fighters", and when they
fire missiles from the Golan Heights (after Israel ended that occupation) they
blame Israel because they retaliate..
Jon
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