I do not think it’s fine. I think you’re poisoning the discourse and should stop doing it, as indeed should the blogger in your example if there isn’t more to go on. Is your last sentence some kind of parody, or an actual defense of the reason our country is broken?
“A Spectre is haunting Europe” is a perfectly good way to begin a manifesto. Spooks are, and always have been, part of the business of changing people’s behavior.
In the interests of honesty: I have difficulties with a lot of the premises of EA as well as tactics. Accusing them of bad tactics is a method that has a lot more purchase than challenging the premises. Criticism of tactics can reach a wide variety of people; criticism of premises involves making me look like a fool or a villain.
I do not think it’s fine. I think you’re poisoning the discourse and should stop doing it, as indeed should the blogger in your example if there isn’t more to go on. Is your last sentence some kind of parody, or an actual defense of the reason our country is broken?
This seems to be a mean-spirited way to poison the discourse in exactly the way it attacks Sarah for—is that irony intentional?
“A Spectre is haunting Europe” is a perfectly good way to begin a manifesto. Spooks are, and always have been, part of the business of changing people’s behavior.
I do not have to fit your standards of discourse when I am doing battle against spooks.
In the interests of honesty: I have difficulties with a lot of the premises of EA as well as tactics. Accusing them of bad tactics is a method that has a lot more purchase than challenging the premises. Criticism of tactics can reach a wide variety of people; criticism of premises involves making me look like a fool or a villain.
I am not making a parody. I am doing a thing. I want to do this thing.