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Thread #41397   Message #599442
Posted By: Rick Fielding
28-Nov-01 - 12:28 PM
Thread Name: Thug Calls for violence v. Pacifists
Subject: RE: Thug Calls for violence v. Pacifists
Went back and read the thing again. I guess the reason I can't take it as seriously as some are, is that it's simply BADLY WRITTEN. If you ARE trying to be ironic, then you need to have the skills to carry it off. If you're trying to "stick it" to one group or another, you have to show consistency of purpose. The writer is simply not that skilled...it's a technical mish-mash. Not at all like reading something by Charlie Krauthammer that you might think idiotic. His "Bomb Afghanistan back to the stone age" bit of a few weeks ago, got me riled....but only because he used dishonest rhetoric, ALONG with serious writing skills.

The guy who wrote this is simply an amateur (like most of us!)

Rick