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This week, we mix it up across a wide variety of views with guests from all over the right side of the ideological map. First up, AEI’s Christina Hoff Sommers, author of The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men. She wrote a Tweet this past week that set social media on fire. So we talk about that. Then, the main event: Charlie Sykes is a longtime time talk radio host in Wisconsin and is the newly minted host the The Daily Standard podcast right here on Ricochet. Charlie and our own Peter Robinson get into on the current occupant of the Oval Office, and well, let’s just say they don’t see eye-to-eye. But they do give a master class in how to disagree civilly. Take notes, people.
Music from this week’s podcast: Why Can’t We Be Friends by War
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I was responding to @painterjean’s comment # 535. Please try and keep up
Excuse them for what? You keep saying they now say character doesn’t matter. I don’t think they have said that. If your analogy here is supposed to represent what Prager and Bennett are saying in your eyes, well, then I can’t really tell if you mean it or if you’re just trolling. I think you mean it, though, and I think that reflects worse on you than if you were trolling.
Persecution complex. People act as if you have leprosy (they don’t really but I’m humoring you) because you’re operating under a category error and the result is incoherence. Also, you act as if people who disagree with you don’t believe in standards of decency. Wrong. Dead wrong. Your standard isn’t the only one and God knows isn’t the best one.
Otherwise, it’s a conversation. Attempts to learn and persuade. Not a refusal to leave you alone – you’re the one who keeps speaking about this in a public forum, people have the right to question and criticize you.
So why are you bothering to type what you just did?? Obviously you cared enough to take the time! Very amusing.
I think that’s a fine paradigm. I like those writers as well. I don’t think any of them have held up the virtues or the importance of character up at the high level that, say, Prager and Bill Bennett have, so there’s not necessarily any particular hypocrisy or self-debasing going on in their cases.
I was responding to your comment 535.
specifically :
”But don’t expect me to like this pig of a man, or not criticize him when he does something worthy of criticism. And don’t expect me to give any credibility when Prager or Bennet extol the virtues or the importance of character, because it only applies when it’s convenient.”
Since you felt the need to make the declaration I was just clearing up any confusion about whether I cared.
Reminder: I don’t.
Right, but the political and social dynamics have become a practical problem. Ben Sasse’s time will come. I don’t even like thinking about this stuff, really.
There is a great political activist in MN, John Gilmore (@shabbosgoy) that turned me around on a lot of this stuff.
Discuss!
I wasn’t thinking of you so personally, but rather, as a group, Trump supporters who can’t seem to understand that, for some people, character is really very important and Trump’s lack of it is a serious problem. If you and others value other aspects of Trump more than character, that’s fine, but don’t disparage those who think differently, as Prager is likely to do these days.
That’s a whole new post, Rufus – go for it!
Since I’ve never disparaged those who feel the way you do, I guess it’s safe to assume that the “you” – in a comment specifically addressed to me – is not to me ?
Might I suggest you address your comments to those to whom it does apply?
I’m not sure about that.
Moderator Note:
RudeOh good grief…really, just chill. I’m not able to address Prager personally, obviously, so my comments about him and those Trump supporters who are similarly inclined to disparage Trump critics will just have to be taken in the spirit in which they were intended.
Touchy, touchy, touchy….just like your orange god-king.I just watched the lurging competition at the Olympics. Always worries me, because it looks like a head injury just waiting to happen, and if you’re me, that’s bothersome, for umpteen reasons.
Oh, wait . . .
Fine. I give up. You’d rather be nasty then comment. It if fine with me.
She, as I told someone else, my spelling is failing me, as is the rest of me!