HELP WANTED: Calling all human shield peace professionals! Iraqi Resistance(TM) is seeking experienced, sanctimonious self-starters for unique high-level protest opportunities! Join our Baghdad action team today and earn big credibility by opposing the Booooshitler Chimposter-In-Thief's Imperialist AmeriKKKan War Machine!Another comment in the same thread is a good description of a certain rhetorical technique:
Qualified candidates will have a BA in peace studies from Evergreen State, Reed College, Berkeley or similar top-tier asylum, and 2+ years in graduate school or equivalent experience in huffing paint. AltWeekly/NPR experience a plus. Bring portfolio of your giant papier-mache Cheney head puppet projects.
Benefit package includes attractive relocation program, two weeks vacation in Mecca, free kaffiya and madrassa scholarship program.
This is NOT multilevel marketing program - it's your chance to really Rage Against The Machine! Stop being a wuss ChickenDove, and find out if you have the commitment it takes to be a REAL anti-Bush activist!
Send resumes to:
Mr. Ali
3215 St. Rachel Corrie of the Pancakes Blvd. #35a
Tikrit, Iraq
Iraq Resistance is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
The point is that calling warbloggers cowards is sort of like calling opponents of "affirmative action" racists. It's the H-bomb of rhetorical ploys, intended to silence the opponent by branding him as a moral leper who is necessarily unentitled to an opinion. What's more, the ploy is a Catch-22: Ignore the charge and it remains stuck to you. Respond and get diverted from the debate into a usually fruitless attempt to defend yourself. (How do you prove that you are not a coward or a racist?) The only reasonable option is to turn the tables again by showing how the attack demonstrates the intellectual and moral failings of the attacker.And if you are new to the blogosphere and doubt that really daffy antiwar arguments ("Saddam wasn't that bad" "a pro-war stance is hypocritical unless you actually serve") are circulating in the body politic, that thread is also an eye-opener.
UPDATE: Armed Liberal thinks so too.
<< Home