Comments on: Katrina roundup http://heliologue.com/2005/09/02/katrina-roundup/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:11:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andy http://heliologue.com/2005/09/02/katrina-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-11674 Andy Wed, 07 Sep 2005 23:01:49 +0000 http://heliologue.com/blog/2005/09/02/katrina-roundup/#comment-11674 How dare anyone make generalizations? Like the one Daily Kos makes that all the people who would have preferred Terry Schiavo's plug not be pulled are now "sitting on their ass" and not doing anything— least of all sending money— to help the victims of the hurricane? (He really shouldn't bother me; anyone who still cites someone with the criminal and RACIST record of Al Sharpton gave up credibility about the time he gave up wetting the bed.) Similar "logic" permeates most of the above entries. It's the politicizing of the tragedy that galls me more than anything. I'm not characterizing bloggers as being spacey liberals with nothing to say; if anything I'm criticizing this small subsection of them as being too narrowly focused and as having too much to say, with little or no differentiation between fact and opinion. Did I avidly research my assertion that the most vocal liberals have jobs in the public sector or academia? That they are often DINKs? Is that reeeaaaalllyy necessary, given the level of discourse there displayed? Sorry, I'll stop now. I know how you feel, and I hate to be the pissy conservative on your site (I'm probably costing you precious lib-cred). But I just felt spunky about the whole deal. Do these morons actually think America won't band together- again- and give the afflicted persons, black or white or chartreuse, the aid needed? Do they think someone who voted for Bush cares less? I voted for Bush, and I have been known to make a generalization or two, and I would not make such a statement about someone who voted for Gore, or Kerry, or Dean, or Nader... Well, maybe Nader. :-P How dare anyone make generalizations? Like the one Daily Kos makes that all the people who would have preferred Terry Schiavo’s plug not be pulled are now “sitting on their ass” and not doing anything— least of all sending money— to help the victims of the hurricane? (He really shouldn’t bother me; anyone who still cites someone with the criminal and RACIST record of Al Sharpton gave up credibility about the time he gave up wetting the bed.) Similar “logic” permeates most of the above entries.

It’s the politicizing of the tragedy that galls me more than anything. I’m not characterizing bloggers as being spacey liberals with nothing to say; if anything I’m criticizing this small subsection of them as being too narrowly focused and as having too much to say, with little or no differentiation between fact and opinion.

Did I avidly research my assertion that the most vocal liberals have jobs in the public sector or academia? That they are often DINKs?
Is that reeeaaaalllyy necessary, given the level of discourse there displayed?

Sorry, I’ll stop now. I know how you feel, and I hate to be the pissy conservative on your site (I’m probably costing you precious lib-cred). But I just felt spunky about the whole deal. Do these morons actually think America won’t band together– again– and give the afflicted persons, black or white or chartreuse, the aid needed? Do they think someone who voted for Bush cares less?

I voted for Bush, and I have been known to make a generalization or two, and I would not make such a statement about someone who voted for Gore, or Kerry, or Dean, or Nader...

Well, maybe Nader.

:-P

]]> By: Ben http://heliologue.com/2005/09/02/katrina-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-11673 Ben Wed, 07 Sep 2005 03:40:40 +0000 http://heliologue.com/blog/2005/09/02/katrina-roundup/#comment-11673 Are you trying to characterize bloggers in general as being spacey liberals with nothing to say? I would posit that all of them with the exception of Wonkette have day jobs, and all of them pay taxes, and have kids. Sure, blogs are available to any nerdy kid in his parents' basement, but that doesn't mean that well-established ones are worthless. Just the opposite, in fact. To suggest otherwise is not only crass, but baseless as well. Are you trying to characterize bloggers in general as being spacey liberals with nothing to say? I would posit that all of them with the exception of Wonkette have day jobs, and all of them pay taxes, and have kids.

Sure, blogs are available to any nerdy kid in his parents’ basement, but that doesn’t mean that well-established ones are worthless. Just the opposite, in fact. To suggest otherwise is not only crass, but baseless as well.

]]> By: Andy http://heliologue.com/2005/09/02/katrina-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-11671 Andy Tue, 06 Sep 2005 23:38:14 +0000 http://heliologue.com/blog/2005/09/02/katrina-roundup/#comment-11671 Which, of course, does not mean it's not true. Which, of course, does not mean it’s not true.

]]> By: Ben http://heliologue.com/2005/09/02/katrina-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-11652 Ben Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:41:56 +0000 http://heliologue.com/blog/2005/09/02/katrina-roundup/#comment-11652 Well, as long as you know it's crass. Well, as long as you know it’s crass.

]]> By: Andy http://heliologue.com/2005/09/02/katrina-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-11651 Andy Fri, 02 Sep 2005 19:31:58 +0000 http://heliologue.com/blog/2005/09/02/katrina-roundup/#comment-11651 'twas an admittedly crass generalization of the bloggers themselves. ’twas an admittedly crass generalization of the bloggers themselves.

]]> By: Ben http://heliologue.com/2005/09/02/katrina-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-11649 Ben Fri, 02 Sep 2005 18:20:05 +0000 http://heliologue.com/blog/2005/09/02/katrina-roundup/#comment-11649 I'm not quite sure what part of the roundup you're taking issue with. I’m not quite sure what part of the roundup you’re taking issue with.

]]> By: Andy http://heliologue.com/2005/09/02/katrina-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-11647 Andy Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:30:34 +0000 http://heliologue.com/blog/2005/09/02/katrina-roundup/#comment-11647 At the risk of sounding like certain people's mothers who shall remain nameless... some day these people might actually get jobs in the private sector, might actually have to produce something, might actually have to pay taxes, might actually have to save to send kids to college, might actually have to make monthly car payments... then they may have something better to do than rail on authority and find daily affirmation among other like-minded hemp wearers. At the risk of sounding like certain people’s mothers who shall remain nameless...

some day these people might actually get jobs in the private sector, might actually have to produce something, might actually have to pay taxes, might actually have to save to send kids to college, might actually have to make monthly car payments...

then they may have something better to do than rail on authority and find daily affirmation among other like-minded hemp wearers.

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