The Watching of ASAH

[get the red out]

57. This is striking a cord with me

I've been thinking about attitudes that hurt progressive goals, and the "thought police" attitude is certainly one of them. Where all dialogue must be controlled by those who nominate themselves as the keepers of truth. The weapons are humiliation and belittling. I have to admit to being someone who gets more than a little huffy about horrible rw attitudes and attacks, but the "know-it-all" left has left a nice breeding ground for the rw to recruit sometimes.

There has to always be someone to attack, so when you are on a site where people share so many political thoughts in common, there has to be a way to further "purify" the product. Over here in ASAH, we are very impure, we don't follow many thinking rules, we really need to be lined up.

We aren't the only recipients though, I saw a thread the other day talking about how insane a group of people who were part of a Christian meditation group on FB were because they read the daily meditation as a source of inspiration. That was a bit much for me, I don't care if those folks are Fundamentalists, left-wing Christians, or what; making fun of someone and calling their sanity into question for THAT is the kind of thing that is so pointless, baseless, and mean-spirited that it can only detract from ideals progressives say they want to fight for.

It's sad, really.