Comments on: Objectively Stupid http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2009/07/01/objectively-stupid/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=objectively-stupid n. the principle of good order<br /><br /> "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:25:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anderson http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2009/07/01/objectively-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-33138 Anderson Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:46:50 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/?p=9846#comment-33138 I made a <a href="http://thusbloggedanderson.blogspot.com/2009/06/objectively-bolshevik-jargon.html" rel="nofollow">desultory effort</a> at tracing Orwell's formulation back to Lenin. The "objectively" tag seems to've been a handy adverb to apply to people one wanted shot without their actually having done anything wrong. It says a lot about the kind of people who parrot this formulation today that they find it so congenial. I made a desultory effort at tracing Orwell’s formulation back to Lenin. The “objectively” tag seems to’ve been a handy adverb to apply to people one wanted shot without their actually having done anything wrong. It says a lot about the kind of people who parrot this formulation today that they find it so congenial.

]]> By: merickson http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2009/07/01/objectively-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-33132 merickson Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:09:35 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/?p=9846#comment-33132 Larry Gellman, via Bill Maher, has a non-stupid take on why all the fascism talk: http://larrygellman.blogspot.com/2009/06/numbing-code-of-hatespeech.html Makes sense to me. Larry Gellman, via Bill Maher, has a non-stupid take on why all the fascism talk:

http://larrygellman.blogspot.com/2009/06/numbing-code-of-hatespeech.html

Makes sense to me.

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