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Mary Anne — (archived)

I agree, the Right has been working on this for decades. Since Goldwater.

If you could list people all day, does this mean you have spoken to all those people and know they are vicious little nihilists from their actual words (in context), or that you're getting a list fed to you from "somewhere" in hopes that you'll make noise about it? If the list is repeated often enough, does that make it true?

How many vicious little nihilists did you go to school with, that they could have come to dominate the entire academy? Twenty? Two hundred? Two thousand? Have you kept up with them all? Are they enough to run all the major state and private universities in the country?

I got my training young in recognizing political tactics, and I recognize one now. Whether you are a player or a piece on the board doesn't matter to me, but the fact that a game is now in play, and I can recognize the next moves, matters a lot. This is the next move.

You are right: criticism is a means to an end. You and others are exercizing the means, and I can recognize the end.

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