Reply #62: Hypocrisy & poor writing [View All]

[troubledamerican]

Your accusations of "ad hominem demonizing" are interesting in juxtaposition with your own earlier remarks in this thread about "ivory tower types who have no contact with reality", etc.

Your demonizing equivalence of Chavez & Castro is a well-worn Neocon talking point. There simply is no equivalence. Castro's Cuba is not a democracy with free elections or a free press, and Chavez hasn't executed his own citizens. Meanwhile, the actual threat in Latin America is the factual widespread historic pattern of Far Right military dictatorships & their modern incarnations such as Alvaro Uribe & Alan Garcia, who kill their own citizens, use Death Squads & mass graves, a point never addressed by those DUers who are quick to equate Chavez & Castro.

In other words, if you're using Neocon talking points, such as those about Chavez & Castro, without any differentiation from Neocon sympathies for Uribe/etc., then you should not be surprised to be interpreted as a Neocon.

Finally, using CAPS for EMPHASIS as OFTEN as you DO, you have little clout for being taken seriously with an accusation of "DISTRACTION". Nothing is more distracting than overuse of capitals.

And nothing is more useless and topically tone-deaf than having a serious debate about a serious topic whilst you feel some compulsion to insert "DU inside-joke numeral-ones". Can I start inserting random Muppet jokes into a conversation about Death Squads yet expect to be taken seriously?