dmb said: Reactionary means right-wing, ultraconservative, old-fashioned, unprogressive, redneck and the like. Craig replied:You're confusing categorical with relative concepts. "Right-wing" or "ultraconservative" locates a position along a spectrum that has "left-wing" or "ultraliberal" at the other end, according to some principle of categorization (e.g., private vs. government). "Reactionary" means "reacting against current trends". For instance, in regard to school vouchers, generally liberals are reactionary.
dmb says:Since the terms I equated with "reactionary" came from my thesaurus, your assertion that I'm confused about what it means is downright Orwellian. In effect, you're saying liberal are reactionaries because they oppose reactionary policies. Right. And slavery is freedom. People who support school vouchers aren't necessarily reactionary but most people who favor it are reactionary. Same with home schooling and the attempts to break up the teachers union. All of these are efforts to undo public education and return to the days of old. I'm sure you could confirm this demographic fact if you were really interested in the truth. There have been polls on these topics. _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_QuickAdd_062009 Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
