From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
   news:6zgJf.8859$rL5.5298@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net...   
      
   >   
   > Unequal physical suffering *is* "the big stuff." It's the   
   > central injustice that egalitarian political principles   
   > oppose. Volunteer nurse-work in the absence of a decent   
   > health care system is a slow, literal, inefficient way to   
   > oppose injustice, but it's one way. Campaigning politically   
   > for greater fairness -- e.g. for the aforementioned decent   
   > health care system -- is another way to oppose injustice.   
   > They're on a continuum.   
   >   
   > Whereas a politics of religious indignation (or indignation   
   > against religious indignation, for that matter) doesn't help   
   > anyone except a few leaders.   
   >   
   > /M   
      
   One of the great tricks of Cultural Marxism (Political Correctness as it   
   used to be called) is what I call Abstract Emotionalism. To explain this I   
   would like you to imagine the pair of us out on the campaign trail. I make a   
   perfectly reasonable speech - based in reason, saying something like: the   
   implications of the cartoon furore, Islamic terrorism, murder (theo van   
   gogh) and the vandalism of Jewish cemetaries are alarming; Islam + the   
   Left's obstinate belief in multiculturalism will lead to sectarianism in the   
   cities and, where the authorities are committed to multiculturalism, a   
   creeping in of de facto sharia law. In short, free speech and liberty are   
   under threat.'   
    Then you make your speech: 'I saw a man dying in the street this morning.   
   Nothing much matters when you've seen that. You need a health care system   
   and don't sweat the racism of my colleague here.'   
      
   And you would get whoops and screeching applause and I would be called a   
   'fascist, man'.  And that's why Latte Marxism has taken off so big: reason   
   out, emotion in. And in the USA you have the luxury of that outlook. I   
   laughed out loud sardonically at your religious indignation comments:   
   specious evasion, as usual.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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