tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post5705685690564295932..comments2024-03-01T08:19:54.547+00:00Comments on BobFromBrockley: Stuffbobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-72418441311159817492011-06-27T15:36:46.127+01:002011-06-27T15:36:46.127+01:00"Trying hard to keep up with the enormous qua..."Trying hard to keep up with the enormous quantity of stuff that floods into my inbox(es) and twitter feed and blog feeds..."<br /><br />Why? Are you a mOrAN?Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08015473239835274353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-66725557222445804052011-06-27T12:42:01.537+01:002011-06-27T12:42:01.537+01:00Yes absolutely to all of Ben's 3 points. I don...Yes absolutely to all of Ben's 3 points. I don't endorse the content or broader website of any of these links. In fact, I had not delved very deeply into Taki's before posting this, and only now see a list of names that includes Buchanan, who despise, and Gottfried. I may consider removing that link pending further investigation.<br /><br />On Gottfried: http://antigerman.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/faces-of-the-new-right/bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-79901809869151542952011-06-27T03:32:15.561+01:002011-06-27T03:32:15.561+01:00From your "I'm not a racist, but..."...From your "<i>I'm not a racist, but...</i>" post, Bob...<br /><br /><i>...policing the line of acceptability is not an easy task. I've spent a large amount of this internet space on this blog fighting on that front, but I don't think the front is always easy to draw so clearly.</i><br /><br />Me, I think exposing oneself to a broad range of ideas is a splendid way of testing one's assumptions and beliefs. As that post suggests that you're more cautious about venturing near "extreme" positions, and as I'm'a'gonna guess you're not a reader of TakiMag and may, if you read further, feel slightly awkward about linking to it*, could I be cheeky enough make these proposals...<br /><br />(1) That a link needn't imply a wholehearted endorsement.<br /><br />(2) That a tainted source needn't be entirely rotten. <br /><br />(3) That the question of the legitimacy of links needn't be worth losing sleep/friends/marbles over because, ultimately, unless you're Instapundit/Andrew Sullivan/whoever runs Boing Boing it only effects pedantic commenters such as myself.<br /><br />[*] Not that I want to play the petticoat-clutching maid. I just assume that if you think AntiWar.com is beyond the pale you won't be a massive fan of Paul Gottfried, Pat Buchanan and the gang.bensixhttp://bensix.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-72513375949890373182011-06-27T00:21:57.084+01:002011-06-27T00:21:57.084+01:00"... I took part in was an aborted attempt in..."... I took part in was an aborted attempt in May, 1989, to visit a Palestinian family in Qalqiliya, on the West Bank - one of the sons of the family had been arrested and was accused of being a terrorist, and in response the IDF was going to seal off one of the rooms of the house ... Our goal was to express support for the family."<br /><br />Sealing a room in a house of a terrorist's family seems a rather non-violent kind of punishment for giving support to such a person. By what rule of universal justice has this family won the author's sympathy over the Israeli family whose son or daughter would be targeted by the terrorist? <br /><br />Her story reminded me of this more recent solidarity visit by extremist leftists to the village of Awarta:<br /><br />http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143625The Contentious Centristhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07370528817706233156noreply@blogger.com