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Not leftists, idiotarians

A reader is outraged by what he or she deems criticism of "leftists", but the piece was not about "left" vs. "right", it was about the word "idiotarian", which is NOT synonymos with "leftist". There are plenty of "right-wing" idiotarians too. And there are plenty of left-wing people who are not at all idiotarian. Tony Blair does not strike me as being very idiotarian. That is why a new word is needed. We can argue about whether the word "idiotarian" is the one to use or not, but let us not obscure the point that we do need to be able to refer to this group somehow.

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Sarah Fitz-Claridge
http://www.fitz-claridge.com/

by Sarah Fitz-Claridge on Thu, 07/03/2003 - 23:13

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