[MD] Intellect battles the [immigrant] barbarians

[Platt Holden]

Hi All,

If you want a classic example of a totally unsupported and biased 
view, (not to mention an ad hominem attack), pin this to your ice box 
for all in the family to see. (Sometimes I think Arlo doesn't even know 
what the word "evidence" means.)  

Best,
Platt
  


> [Arlo]
> Stick around Ron, and feel free to stay in the States for now. Platt
> justifies pretty much everything by claiming it to "society over
> barbaric forces". It is simply an apologist strategy for justifying
> everything and anything the USofA has done or may do.
> 
> A while back I posted a rubric to understanding everything Platt says.
> 
> Start with these simple paired axioms.
> 
> 1a. The republicans are right about everything.
> 1b. The democrats are wrong about everything.
> 
> 2a. Conservatives are wholly moral, virtuous, principled people.
> 2b. Liberals are immoral, deceptive, conniving evil commies.
> 
> 3a. Everything right-wing radio reports is unquestionable truth.
> 3b. Everything the "liberal media" reports is a lie.
> 
> Using this, for example, its easy to see why helping a dictator to use
> chemical weapons was "moral". Reagan was a conservative. And why our
> actions in the war are justified. Bush is a conservative.
> 
> Now, of course, Platt also tries to make anyone who disagrees with him
> conversely axiomatic. I'm sure you'll see, if you haven't already, how
> that's just hot air. I'm confident, if you and I talk and debate, that
> we will disagree and agree, but that (like with Craig, who I believe
> also considers himself a conservative) Platt is really the only one here
> trapped inside such outrageous Party Ideology.
> 
> I'll also remind you of the two Neocon myths, one in the Morally
> Superior Wholly Noble American Nation, and the other is in Christianity
> The Moral Religion (for a later time). According to Neocon thinking,
> America is a faultless, always moral, always Holy, always pure force in
> the world, whose role is to bring its Divine Morality to the pure,
> wretched, immoral nations of the world. Anything done in American
> interests, then, is Always Good. No matter the cost. No matter the act.
> The simply rubric becomes "Does it serve America's interest?" If it
> does, then it is moral.
> 
> Again I'll caution you that there will be an attempt to use converse
> positioning, namely that if you are critical of the US at all, you must
> believe the US to be wholly immoral, evil and wrong in all cases. And
> again I am sure you will come to see that (despite Platt's predicted
> claim that this is my position) no one other than Platt accepts such an
> absurd dichotomy here.
> 
> At any rate, I hope this helps. Like Ian and Khaled I keep telling
> myself to just ignore Platt's outrageous comments, but like a loose
> tooth I find it unbearable not to push at it. Maybe someday I'll learn.
> 
> (As I said, get ready for this post in mirror image condemning me for
> all these things. Like I said, I am confident in time you will see that
> for the rhetorical nonsense it is).