Monday, July 25, 2016
bruce wilder 07.25.16 at 4:43 am
LFC @ 470
I was trying to draw attention to the way you were eliding surprise and scandal.
Atrios, clearly a news junkie who follows politics fairly closely, acknowledges that the DNC’s bias was widely known. In that sense, you were perfectly accurate in asserting “no one thought . . . ”
The thing is, the DNC was supposed to be neutral. Its members — and especially its chair — had an ethical imperative derived from the institutional mandate.
You took common knowledge (admittedly somewhat vague and unconfirmed on some specifics) and you made it into moral indifference.
I am not trying to criticize you personally for that. I am not attributing it to some particular shortcoming in your character. As far as I can tell your character is just fine. But, I do think it reflects a troubling aspect of our times, that we have some trouble mustering some feeling about the ethical shortcomings of our lords and masters. Just because we’ve come to expect it doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter.
492
LFC @ 470
I was trying to draw attention to the way you were eliding surprise and scandal.
Atrios, clearly a news junkie who follows politics fairly closely, acknowledges that the DNC’s bias was widely known. In that sense, you were perfectly accurate in asserting “no one thought . . . ”
The thing is, the DNC was supposed to be neutral. Its members — and especially its chair — had an ethical imperative derived from the institutional mandate.
You took common knowledge (admittedly somewhat vague and unconfirmed on some specifics) and you made it into moral indifference.
I am not trying to criticize you personally for that. I am not attributing it to some particular shortcoming in your character. As far as I can tell your character is just fine. But, I do think it reflects a troubling aspect of our times, that we have some trouble mustering some feeling about the ethical shortcomings of our lords and masters. Just because we’ve come to expect it doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter.
492
# posted by Frank @ 1:10 PM 
