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Old 08-24-2005, 03:07 PM
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Default Re: Demonizing Dissent

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Originally Posted by Rafe Opsimath
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Originally Posted by Clutch Munny
Eh?
Thank you for your substantial response.
My apologies. Let's try again.

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Originally Posted by Rafe Opsimath
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Originally Posted by livius drusus
I just don't see that the chimera of Political Correctness as utilised over the past 10 years has much to do with a genuine beef about the siege mentality of advocates for the disenfranchised.
And thus you prove my point: even after I've made my argument, you assert that any concerns about "PC" must be motivated by right-wing paranoia.
The word "thus", in English, normally indicates that an inference is being offered as valid; or, at a minimum, that compelling though non-demonstrative evidence for a conclusion has been adduced. Your use of the term in your remark immediately above, addressed as it was to the quote from livius drusus, is therefore quite baffling. For neither the literal meaning, nor any connotation, nor any sentiment of

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I just don't see that the chimera of Political Correctness as utilised over the past 10 years has much to do with a genuine beef about the siege mentality of advocates for the disenfranchised.
could possibly be confused by any competent speaker of English for

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any concerns about "PC" must be motivated by right-wing paranoia.
Hence your claim -- that in writing the former livius drusus asserted the latter -- is rationally unrecoverable.



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