Sunday, August 07, 2011
Raging At The Dying Of Their Light
This scenario with slight differences, occurred more recently this year, when a fellow dinner guest, a professor of public policy at a major university who had just completed a federal appointment by Obama, asked me what I thought of Sarah Palin ( whom I said I liked) and anthropogenic global warming (about which I indicated extreme skepticism), he, like my Maine host, exploded in a fury. " I can't believe a nice, educated Jewish woman like you would hold such views," he said. "I suppose you don't believe in natural selection either," he sneered.
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I am not ideologically conservative and I have experienced the same kind of incidents when talking about AGW with friends and acquaintances that are left leaning. And I have got similar reactions when talking with acquaintances that disagree with Democratic policies. I think this has more do to with holding rigid ideological positions than anything else. Ideological allegiance demands dogmatism. The comments to the article in the American Thinker are a perfect mirror image to the dinner incidents described in the article.
Dalcio
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