"'The Iranian regime epitomizes evil,' you say. While we may rightly abhor and condemn the archconservative social policies of that regime, surely we should reserve extreme terms like "evil" for the genuine monsters of history, like Nero, Vlad the Impaler or Hitler. Calling every petty regional dictator 'evil' is ultimately counterproductive by coarsening our political discourse and dehumanizing our opponents."-- Camille Paglia, being extremely relativist - as a way to defend herself against the charge of being a relativist - for Salon.com
NewAgers are just too much,...
Apologists for Iran are more amazing all the time. The dodging and twisting they do around hard facts would qualify them for Olympic gymnastics.
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Oh, and the Parliament there wants to make "bad" blogging punishable by death.
Paglia and the like -- dangerous, dangerous twits.
(Had to chuckle at your, "being relative while trying not to be relative" dig!)