Delaware Liberal

That Didn’t Take Long

To play the tired PC card. Which, we are already clear, is basically the default position of retreat for those who can’t find rational or civilized arguments for their daily fear and loathing and paranoia.

There is simply no attempt to delegitimize political speech from this site.  We absolutely welcome it.  We do work pretty hard though, at treating illegitimate political speech as, well, illegitimate.  And the illegitimate consists of the Talking Points — the effort to get conservatives everywhere to be on the same message every day.  The effort to slant the news coverage to the conservative position simply because this message is coming from so many places.  The effort to recast the world in terms where conservatives area always being abused by liberals.  Those talking points are traditionally lies – or, optimistically, a selective choosing of facts – designed to get the rest of the world to participate in their daily fear and loathing and paranoia.

Even David A’s post can’t quite manage an intellectually honest or coherent critique of leftist speech without making it all up pretty much wholesale:

I could keep going, but you do get the point.  David – as is required by longstanding wingnut rules of engagement – makes up the stories that will support the worldview needed to be able to listn to his radio handlers and beleive every word they say.   A worldview that casts Dems – or at least these Dems — as the meanies while conservatives are just doing the absolutely right thing by indulging in their irrational fears and paranoias and prejudices.

What is apparently not PC about this is that we call him on this.  We don’t let him get away with this made up way of the world.  We don’t let him get away with not looking at the abundant bigotry in denying one class of people the rights that all of the rest enjoy.  He would prefer to be completely unchallenged, so that he can go back to his blog and his buddies with smug tales of teaching liberals something today.

Forget that.  As long as you start from a dishonest place, you get called on every bit of it – the lies, the not-facts, the selective-facts, the stupid math, the cherry-picked polls, the revisionist history – all of it.  As long as your politics starts with what you are scared of, you bet we’ll have something to say about that.  As long as your only comfort in how your ideas are treated here is to retreat to delusions of victimization, we’ll remind you that you are your own worst victimizer.

You are perfectly free to believe and say what you like.  But Political Correctness is not defined in terms of your own personal victimology or in not being in any position to adequately defend yourself.  But being in a better position to defend yourself requires much more work than listening to your radio handlers every day.

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