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09 May 2002 |
Deconstructing Spider-Man
A guilt-ridden Kennedy-era superhero comes of age, says Robert George in the National Review.
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Andrew Sullivan "Reason's Charles Paul Freund also has an excellent dissection of how the media cannot deal with unconventional politics. I like this point:
For now, appeals to diversity, gender equality, etc., are reserved for groups that, in contemporary journalistic discourse, are given "oppressed" status. When such groups use these appeals, or when these appeals are used on their behalf, it's legitimate. But when the same appeals are used to argue against the apparent interests of such groups, it's a category violation. In other words, you can't allow the villain any of the good lines without either raising the status of the villain or lowering the status of the lines, and that in the end that is one of the most revealing aspects of the Fortuyn story."
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Dinesh D’Souza was puzzled by his grandfather’s anti-white racism. But the very colonialism that was bad for the grandfather was good for the grandson... [more]
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