DENUNCIATIONS, ETC

Wrote some words on denunciations at Pejman Yousefzadeh's site, words that might seem unkind.

I dislike this kind of discourse: if you don't repudiate some view, then be on notice that you will be associated with that view (at least according to me). I don't approve when folks with whom I agree make that move, and I don't approve when folks with whom I disagree make it, either. It adds nothing to a debate on the issues and it chips away at the conditions for free and open discussion. The short term gains of such a move -- the pleasure of scoring rhetorical points -- are outweighed by the long term communicative distortions produced by it.

Or, as Bush has said, you can't take the "high horse" on a "low road."

Oh well.

If I'm a hypocrite, so be it. I'll try to be better.