Comments on: email: watch out for those evil pinko commies http://michaeljfaris.com/blog/2008/11/email-watch-out-for-those-evil-pinko-commies/ rhetorics, compositions, technologies, literacies, sexualities Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:05:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michael http://michaeljfaris.com/blog/2008/11/email-watch-out-for-those-evil-pinko-commies/comment-page-1/#comment-3698 Michael Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:47:49 +0000 http://michaeljfaris.com/blog/?p=880#comment-3698 I think that's one way to define post-ideological politics. I don't like it either. I think that’s one way to define post-ideological politics. I don’t like it either.

]]> By: Dennis http://michaeljfaris.com/blog/2008/11/email-watch-out-for-those-evil-pinko-commies/comment-page-1/#comment-3677 Dennis Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:04:26 +0000 http://michaeljfaris.com/blog/?p=880#comment-3677 What does post-ideological politics mean? To be honest, if it's a synonym for "flits from one issue to the next in an awesomely reactionary manner with no thought given to whether or one's stance on an issues is consistent with any kind of overarching political principles" then I don't want any. That's what it kind of sounds like, anyway. What does post-ideological politics mean? To be honest, if it’s a synonym for “flits from one issue to the next in an awesomely reactionary manner with no thought given to whether or one’s stance on an issues is consistent with any kind of overarching political principles” then I don’t want any. That’s what it kind of sounds like, anyway.

]]> By: Michael http://michaeljfaris.com/blog/2008/11/email-watch-out-for-those-evil-pinko-commies/comment-page-1/#comment-3663 Michael Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:21:42 +0000 http://michaeljfaris.com/blog/?p=880#comment-3663 Oh, it is overgeneralized. He was mostly dismayed, I think, with reactionary "politics" that is grounded in ad hominem attacks, misunderstanding of terms like liberal and socialism, and no real allegiance to a political theory. (We are, arguably, in a post-ideological politics.) It was a very brief conversation, and I don't really agree with him, in that I think "politics" is worth talking about because we should try to return it to some sense of civility. Oh, it is overgeneralized. He was mostly dismayed, I think, with reactionary “politics” that is grounded in ad hominem attacks, misunderstanding of terms like liberal and socialism, and no real allegiance to a political theory. (We are, arguably, in a post-ideological politics.) It was a very brief conversation, and I don’t really agree with him, in that I think “politics” is worth talking about because we should try to return it to some sense of civility.

]]> By: Dennis http://michaeljfaris.com/blog/2008/11/email-watch-out-for-those-evil-pinko-commies/comment-page-1/#comment-3656 Dennis Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:27:24 +0000 http://michaeljfaris.com/blog/?p=880#comment-3656 <i>"My teaching mentor today, who has some background in political philosophy, said he hates talking about politics as its practiced in contemporary US politics because it has little to do with political philosophy anymore."</i> Can you expand on this? I want to agree on instinct, but I think it might be overgeneralized. “My teaching mentor today, who has some background in political philosophy, said he hates talking about politics as its practiced in contemporary US politics because it has little to do with political philosophy anymore.”

Can you expand on this? I want to agree on instinct, but I think it might be overgeneralized.

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