T-web
2007-07-30 10:27:26
This relates to one of my hobby horses regarding the left side of the blogosphere: their overuse of ostracism as a politcal & social tool.
Trying to cast a person (or company) out of polite society is a radical tactic, but it’s not always wrong. The way the left uses this tactic, though, is troubling. They regularly use it, or threaten to use it, against people who disagree on purely political matters.
But if you try to cast out someone who disagrees on something like social security reform, for example, what social sanction is left for those who truly should be shunned by society, like neo-Nazi’s and NAMBLA members? The left turns to ostracism so much that the tactic could loose its power. That would be a bad thing.
