Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [Platt to Chris] > Looks like we share the same criticism of each other's postings. > > [Arlo] > Welcome to the Great Pee-Wee, Chris. Expect to see it often with Platt, its > his > favorite rejoinder. I've outlined these tactics before (check the archives if > you wish), and many others have also commented on it. Mark Heyman, a > contributer years ago coined the term "Platteral Shift" to describe the > ridiculous tactics used to move a dialogue from any point of value into the > mire of one-liners. A thread in the archives you may want to look over is > "The > Carousel of Faux Philosophy", or search this phrase in general, if you want a > look into what to expect with Platt. > > Underlying all this is, as you correctly point out, nothing but apologist > dogma > for the Glorious USA, polarized into the following dichotomy. Good=USA, > Bad=Everyone Else. Notice how everything outside the USA is labeled is > "socialist", only America The Superior stands atop the rest of the immoral > world. Coupled with the moronic "commie" rhetoric you've seen ad nauseum, and > as Ian said, that's Plattland. > > Outside one-liners proclaiming the greatness of America, the attack on anyone > who DARES speak against the Righteous States of America, and the Glorification > of the Lone Individual against the Evil forces of society, you will get this: > distortion, evasion, deception. And with these attacks are always the same > devices, Wurlitzers and Pee-Wee's. Criticize this and you get idiotic > accusations of "ad hominem" attacks (boo hoo). > > You can try to be personable, I have (check the archives), but it wears thin > in > the face of this shameful rhetoric. If you go that route, you are a better > person than I. As the archives clearly show there's many a "better person" than Arlo.
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