Inoculation against blind belief
Jul. 28th, 2004 05:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drscottIn their eagerness to get rid of Bush, some people are taking on faith what they might otherwise recognize as propaganda or unlikely stories with no reliable sources.
Thoughtful Democrats are worried that the onslaught of propagandists like MoveOn.org and Michael Moore will tar Democrats by association with thoughtless demagoguery (much as respectable Republicans dissociate themselves from Anne Coulter.)
Here's some commentary about F911 from 1) a respected NPR commentator, and 2) the BBC's take on Polish views.
Reasons not to be cheerful about Kerry if you care about civil liberties.
I always get put in the contrarian position.... and I despise organized religion and its secular offspring, movement politics. Both are enemies of independent thought.
Thoughtful Democrats are worried that the onslaught of propagandists like MoveOn.org and Michael Moore will tar Democrats by association with thoughtless demagoguery (much as respectable Republicans dissociate themselves from Anne Coulter.)
Here's some commentary about F911 from 1) a respected NPR commentator, and 2) the BBC's take on Polish views.
Reasons not to be cheerful about Kerry if you care about civil liberties.
I always get put in the contrarian position.... and I despise organized religion and its secular offspring, movement politics. Both are enemies of independent thought.
