"Painting" the Targets in the Culture War Means Exactly What It Says

January 10, 2011

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To: light up the targets in the culture war. But you knew that, right, David? I’m out.

 



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From: David Appell
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Sent: Mon, January 10, 2011 6:50:52 PM
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Victoria,

Why did you choose the phrase “painting the targets” as your blog motto?

David

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On 1/10/2011 6:38 PM, v taft wrote:

I think culture does help embed messages, just as I believe the culture of corruption embedded itself in the climate science community the outgrowth of which was the Mann graph and plots to lie to get government and foundation money. Scientists who didn’t go along were dismissed as ‘deniers’ and other hateful terms, just as Tea Party folks are now.
There is no moral equivalence between left and right in this issue. You can keep trying but save your breath as I’ve seen too much.



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From: David Appell .appell@gmail.com>
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Sent: Mon, January 10, 2011 5:18:33 PM
Subject: Budiansky

Stephen Budiansky
http://budiansky.blogspot.com/2011/01/not-us-cont.htm :

“For as long as I can remember, I have heard conservatives blaming everything that is wrong in the universe, from violent crime to declining test scores to teen pregnancy to rude children to declining patriotism to probably athlete’s foot . . . upon Dr. Spock, Hollywood liberals, the abolition of prayer in school, Bill Clinton, the “liberal 1960s,” the teaching of evolution — in other words, upon symbols, rhetoric, cultural norms, and the values expressed by political and media leaders. Yet from the moment when someone gets a gun in their hands, apparently, society ceases to have any influence whatsoever on the outcome and individual responsibility takes hold 100%. Something is driving the tripling of death threats against congressmen (and the concomitant rise in threats against Federal judges and other villains of the right, from Forest Service rangers to climate scientists) and it isn’t the sunspot cycle.”

— David Appell, independent science journalist
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