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Harvard’s, uh, arguments against the war
As we can see from this account of an antiwar protest at Harvard, which includes lots of direct quotes from students and teachers at our top university, the antiwar left’s “arguments” are at least as irrational and irrelevant as those that frequently come from the antiwar right.
Now, if some people on the antiwar right reject the imputation of disordered reasoning on their own side, will they also do the same for the antiwar left? If not, then what is their explanation for the left’s reliance on totally irrational arguments in defense of a supposedly rational cause? Comments
There’s no mystery, once one grasps that the origin of any such fanatically held position is hatred of American society. It begins with an emotion, which then is sculpted into a theory suitable for public display. Some design it on a “rightist” model, some on a “leftist” model, according to personal circumstances or history. The theory is basically a rationalization. This explains why people suffering from this syndrome regard those who disagree with them as enemies, with whom friendship is impossible, for the latter might at any moment force the former to realize what’s really at stake. Posted by: frieda on March 28, 2003 5:04 PM |