Sunday, June 25, 2006
Speaking freely about shutting up
The big rightwing blogger, Michelle Malkin - who I don't believe I've ever linked to - photoshops some older propaganda posters to her liking here. The collective message is apparently that liberals (with the New York Times as commander-in-chief) ought not to speak about the war or they are otherwise traitors. It's a curious exercise in shut-up-ism since it attempts to reclaim messages that we generally view as anachronistic, and often shameful, and assume that this is the "moral high ground."
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"attempts to reclaim messages that we generally view as anachronistic, and often shameful, and assume that this is the "moral high ground.""
This is unusual from the "internment was a good idea" slice of the right-wing?
There's a case to be made for a conservative-style interpretation of social and moral norms here, isn't there? And I don't mean "conservative" in the dictatorial Malkinesque sense, but in the sense that there's a case to be made for the wisdom of evolved sets of norms, traditions, and standards.
Malkin seems to be a tad more on the Marinetti side.
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