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Unread 09-14-2017, 05:57 PM
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Hi Quincy,

May I just say (very sorry!) that I find threads that are started solely with links somewhat irritating. (I haven't read the articles yet so I can't comment at this stage anyway.)

I'd really like to see a few words or views from you first, along with those links. I know I'm not alone in this.

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Unread 09-15-2017, 08:06 AM
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Oh, I think the point is obvious--the bow tie-and-goatee conservative crowd, the ones at magazines that will publish metrical poetry, are common xenophobic racist MAGA C.H.U.D.s. (Homophobes in the case of Quadrant, but there's plenty of racism there, too.)

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Unread 09-15-2017, 08:12 AM
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There's a famous discussion by Mengzi of the goodness of human nature. He says that each person, when they see Roger Kimball's face, will feel an impulse to punch it. They might not act on it, but the impulse is there, in all of us, and that is proof that our innate nature is good, however our experiences might come to pervert it.
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The point may be obvious to those who click on the links, but I agree with Jayne that it would have been nice to be given a hint regarding what the links were about so we could decide whether it interests us before clicking. The only hint I had was the identity of the poster, which tipped me off that it was likely to involve something being condemned rather than something being praised. Much as I love scorn, I like to know in advance what today's object of scorn may be.
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I got de-railed by having to look up C.H.U.D.s. I have now filed them with Bozos, Narcs and Hipsters as part of my Lehrian introduction to the language of now.

During the course of my research I found some interesting videos and a trailer wherein the word "bathroom" was used in a way that I found more conventional from a British point of view (in that the naked lady about to be destroyed by the Powers of Evil was taking a shower rather than a shit) and this interested me hugely.

But I have read all the links, which didn't so much, because I don't know the protagonists as well as, perhaps, I should. Sad about Quadrant, because of Les.
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