Recognize that for conservatives, "bad" and "left" are interchangeable!
Atrios noted this first:
Everyone Bad Is A LeftyYep - if you're a conservative commentator, anything bad must derive from the Left!
We've spent several years having fundamentalist anti-women anti-gay Muslim extremists being somehow aligned with liberals, and now anti-government anti-Semitic white supremacists are as well.
No - I don't understand it either... but then, I didn't understand Jonah Goldberg's title: Liberal Fascism.
A willingness to assign personal meanings to words is ... well, psychotic!
... though "meaning" has confounded very smart folks from Plato to Wittgenstein, and Lewis Carroll probably had a point:
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."I note that Tom Tancredo believes Sotomayor is too liberal... because she is associated with La Raza, which he takes to be the Latino version of the KKK!
[Through the Looking-Glass, Chapter 6]
The KKK: that bastion of commie, pinko, fellow-traveling Leftists!
[semi-pointless aside: I am currently working with a director who can't tell 'right' from 'left' - as in "stage right" & "stage left"... it makes rehearsals challenging. I provided her with a job-aid: a simple diagram from the "house/audience" perspective showing Stage Right, Center, Stage Left, Up Right, & Up Left.
Even if YOU can't tell right from left, if you intend to convey your intentions to others it's important to use the terms consistently and in a way that will be understood by others!]
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