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i doubt he expects to be called out directly for that claim.
he loves to pick a fight just to fight. i find his unabashed arrogance amusing.
You can't give a example of what you just highlighted, can you?
i doubt he expects to be called out directly for that claim.
he loves to pick a fight just to fight. i find his unabashed arrogance amusing.
FYI... Christopher Hitchens is an athiest.
and.....?
A huge number of 'conservatives' have already decided that in some way democrats such as clinton, obama and emanuel cons ute being liberal
An atheist spoiling to debate true believers. Who ever heard of such a thing?
(Maybe, just maybe, he felt the need to wash out the distinctively bitter taste of Iraq War "success" for lions of liberal intervention like himself. )
"charge of racism becomes so overused and hackneyed as to be meaningless"
As long as policies, at udes, politics, employment, schooling, iow, life, has a race-influenced aspect, the charge of racism will not be meaningless.
Playing the race card is nearly always nothing but Calling A Spade A Spade.
So what if Hitchens is famous atheist? He's also dying of cancer. Excuse me while I play the atheist cancer card.
That's racist!!!!!1
Bill Clinton pretty much governed from the middle.
There is no question that Obama is, at least ideologically, a far-left liberal.
really? how so ?
Obviously, forcing people to purchase health insurance from private corporations is the epitome of left-wing politics.
Obviously, forcing people to purchase health insurance from private corporations is the epitome of left-wing politics.
yes and making deals with big pharma and the banks.
Calling Obama a fascist would be at least colorable, but Darrin probably thinks the left wing owns fascism. He's argued as much in these pages before.
Maybe, maybe not.
http://www.yaelf.com/aueFAQ/miftocllspdspd.shtml
"Spade" in the sense of "Negro" is not recorded until 1928. (It comes from the colour of the playing card symbol, via the phrase "black as the ace of spades".)
@doobs:
You were awful quick on the draw with the accusation of racism. Chip on your shoulder?
It was a joke. I sarcastically played the race card against b_d, capitalizing off of his suggestion that the race card is almost always appropriate.
I'm actually unsure of whether his use of that phrase was deliberate though.
When someone uses a string of exclamation points with a "1" at the end, that's a clue that they're being sarcastic.
I seem to recall that there's a special font for sarcasm here, but it's been awhile since I've been a regular at ST.
I wasn't familiar with the usage. This might be the very first time I've seen it.
He shares that with DarrinS, so yeah, I can see that.
I think it's an internets lolcats type thing. Clearly I'm not cool enough to pull it off.
Another in my cultural programming, ruthlessly exposed on SpursTalk.
Anyway, back on topic, Hitchen's anti-Islamism is merely a symptom of his more general anti-religiosity, and a fig leaf for his totally unprincipled support of the Iraq War.
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