Ed Perry's property named ******head

[mhaze]

The WA Post ombudsman wrote an editorial defending the article, suggesting that The Post has taken flack:

If true, not only is it not a smear in my view. It would have been derelict not to report.

Propaganda is the very best, when it is based on a grain of truth, or a half truth. It's not the question of a "fact" at issue, but rather the narrative developed and propagated, and the twists and turns it makes while being shaped into a "big lie" that's repeated over and over.

You know this.

And that's all this is.

 

[mhaze]

Which, if true, makes him pond scum.

Well, let's see....London married a woman that he thought was eugenically good for breeding, and he had specific ideas about races and race superiority. He also was a devout socialist. You have to view him as part and parcel of the "progressive society" of that time. They all look pretty stupid today, frankly.

I could go on with this, but it's a detour. I don't view the quality of works of artists, writers and such as lowered because of their personal behavior in their private life.

 

[Spindrift]

Jack London a despicable person? I once read where London was referred to as a proto-National Socialist.

I didn't know that Jack London was a proto-moron. Thanks for pointing this out.

 

[varwoche]

Propaganda is the very best, when it is based on a grain of truth, or a half truth. It's not the question of a "fact" at issue, but rather the narrative developed and propagated, and the twists and turns it makes while being shaped into a "big lie" that's repeated over and over.

You know this.

And that's all this is.

Just because (purported) facts play into a "narrative", that doesn't place them out of bounds. The notion is absurd.

 

[mhaze]

Just because (purported) facts play into a "narrative", that doesn't place them out of bounds. The notion is absurd.

Propaganda certainly is not out of bounds.

Continue.

 

[varwoche]

Propaganda certainly is not out of bounds.

Continue.

If you insist. A similar scenario was Obama's past relationship with Ayers, which clearly played into a narrative. I had no problem at all that those facts were reported on and discussed here. What was ridiculous was the leap that Obama was a Marxist/terrorist sympathizer/whatever based on those facts, just as it would be ridiculous to leap to Perry being a racist based on ******head.

Do you agree?

Think about your answer though before you launch the next round of 11!1smear!!1Alinsky111blahblahblah, seeing as a quick search shows that you were on the Ayers story like white on rice. (See how thoughtful I am for giving you this heads-up. )

 

[varwoche]

You know mhaze, given the quantity of your output, too bad that answering questions in a straight forward manner (if at all) isn't part of the mix.

If you insist. A similar scenario was Obama's past relationship with Ayers, which clearly played into a narrative. I had no problem at all that those facts were reported on and discussed here. What was ridiculous was the leap that Obama was a Marxist/terrorist sympathizer/whatever based on those facts, just as it would be ridiculous to leap to Perry being a racist based on ******head.

Do you agree?

Think about your answer though before you launch the next round of 11!1smear!!1Alinsky111blahblahblah, seeing as a quick search shows that you were on the Ayers story like white on rice. (See how thoughtful I am for giving you this heads-up. )

That'll show me.

Consider yourself fortunate.

 

[Brainster]

There's a road just outside of Austin called Coon Neck. I've always wondered about the possibly racist origins of the name.

In Mesa, Arizona, there is a section of town called Spook Hill. The mayor and NAACP decided it was racist. Historians looked it up and found out that it was named by some cowboys who noticed that their horses got "spooked" one night while they were camping near it.

The effort eventually fizzled out and Google Maps still refers to the hill by that name. And don't even get me started on Squaw Peak.