On Apr 16, 2014, at 6:49 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > These are not state secrets. Nor are they facts disclosed in data reported by > the BLS or the IRS. Just common knowledge -- common sense that doesn't count > for beans in the marginal productivity analysis. Inequality is a positive > fact; coercion is a normative claim. So let's all talk about inequality as if > it has nothing to do with coercion. Let's not talk about the elephant in the > room. What elephant? > > So what's wrong with "inequality"? Framing the debate to be about > "inequality" misses the point that the real problem is coercion. If the > inequality conversation leaves the coercion question up for grabs, you can be > damn sure the right will seize it and run with it. Loser liberals then will > have yet another opportunity to be shocked, shocked that so much inequality > is going on. > > --
========== Hence the conservative fascination with Carl Schmitt, while some liberals seem to be reluctantly rediscovering Robert Hale. E.
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