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."
"attempts to reclaim messages that we generally view as anachronistic, and often shameful, and assume that this is the "moral high ground.""
ReplyDeleteThis 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.
ReplyDeleteMalkin seems to be a tad more on the Marinetti side.