Letters to the Editor
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Rambling Bullshit Contrarianism and a Parade of Strawmen
What is with Salon and the bullshit contrarian showcase?
Camille Paglia, the anti-trans piece and now this rambling bit of nonsense. All of it full of poorly researched, and often unproven, assertions, personal beefs stated as sweeping generalizations and strawmen.
Lots and lots of strawmen.
The current environmental movement is brimming with dreams, hopes and celebration. It's grim where it needs to be grim when it comes to determined negotiation and insisting on action. There's no "celebration of self" way to say "if something isn't done, people will die." Realistic urgency and outrage is NOT the same as fatalism - it's resolve and purpose.
I ams so bored with these attacks which set up some non-existent authoritarian left and knocks it down with ill-reasoned crap. The false aura of courage is used as a cover for the lack of ideas.
Salon trots out this thumbsucker with a snide and nasty shock headline aimed at doing nothing but agitating the audience, and not in a productive way. The undertone being if you object to a simple attack this somehow proves it, even if those objecting are pointing out how boneheaded it is.
WTF is this "celebrate ourselves" crap? Humans celebrate themselves every day, worried about the planet or not. it's this newage blather which allows the dead-eyed sociopaths on the right to run amok.
These two clowns want to chastise activists for any negativity. It's obvious the real group Nordhaus and Shellenberger aim to please is a right wing audience who wants to dismiss the issue without guilt.
Honestly, Salon if is so desperate to suck up to conservatives, they need to not insult the intelligence of the rest of us.