Posted by aogSaturday, 19 April 2008 at 07:12 TrackBack Ping URL

A single thread

I was thinking about the basic MAL position on WWIV, which as far as I can tell is “if anyone is going to get violent, just do whatever they say”. I thought it a bit odd, but then I realized that it’s of the same piece as MAL domestic policy, as evidenced by the career of William Ayers. Unless, of course, the violence is threatened in the name of one of the bitter rubes. And it does seem to be the person, not the idea. Segregation? Don’t the the rubes do that, but it’s fine for any liberal university. Suppress free expression? Same thing. But I suppose that kind of tribal animosity should be expected as the end point of decades of identity (i.e., tribal) politics.