Comments | mediumdave: To be real

mediumdave

To be real

Feb 23, 2007 15:23

One of the great unexamined questions in the current political season, to my mind, is the question of who the "real" people are.

Put that way, it sounds very strange. But what else to make of the way that liberals who should know better, such as Nation writer Katha Pollit, are buying into the premises behind the 100% manufactured controversy ( Read more... )

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ginmar February 23 2007, 21:59:53 UTC

Has Katha Polit been kidnapped by the pod people? She's usually so sensible and that whole thing was nothing but blame the victim bullshit and so forth.

mediumdave February 23 2007, 22:24:38 UTC

Ah, I'm glad you saw that too. It's interesting (albeit frustrating) to see the way that people take sides. Katha may be a feminist, but we can't have the Wrong Sort crashing our parties, old bean.

ginmar February 23 2007, 22:51:56 UTC

Well, if they're the wrong sort, I'm the Huns, all by myself.

mediumdave February 23 2007, 23:16:12 UTC

"Ginmar the Hun" definitely has a nice ring to it!

I don't know if you read it, but I made a comment on one of your entries that was kind of the genesis of this post. Someone had pointed out that the Democratic party goes through this vicious cycle of shutting ordinary folks out of the political process, then wringing their hands over their failure to connect with "real" people. So I commented that this dustup shows pretty clearly that young women aren't "real" enough.