tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post363856051708475323..comments2024-03-28T03:16:14.104-04:00Comments on Noahpinion: Conservatism: Always at war with some part of AmericaNoah Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093917601641588575noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-5813493527331239192012-01-12T08:50:27.020-05:002012-01-12T08:50:27.020-05:00You have to lol at this post. Who needs self-refle...You have to <i>lol</i> at this post. Who needs self-reflection? Certainly not the good guys!vimothynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-84143672048722528962012-01-12T08:28:46.547-05:002012-01-12T08:28:46.547-05:00Here are some numbers: it depends on whether you a...Here are some numbers: it depends on whether you allow Hispanics to counts as whites, but the vast majority of food stamp money and welfare money still goes to non-Hispanic whites...<br /><br />http://www.theroot.com/views/food-stamp-fallacy?page=0,2Noah Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09093917601641588575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-7194844389972367022012-01-11T18:37:15.338-05:002012-01-11T18:37:15.338-05:00Jamison: It was in the story I linked to about San...Jamison: It was in the story I linked to about Santorum. Wanna fact-check it for me?Noah Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09093917601641588575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-74932294644365668732012-01-11T17:30:32.352-05:002012-01-11T17:30:32.352-05:00Source for foodstamps data? Thanks!Source for foodstamps data? Thanks!Jamisonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-8329304666406794632012-01-10T08:24:42.319-05:002012-01-10T08:24:42.319-05:00@Noah,
that's interesting usually we think it&...@Noah,<br />that's interesting usually we think it's the supply of bad people making the demand for counter measures, but maybe it's just the demand for enemies which creates the supply of bad people...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14377623855540455028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-6708619832714776702012-01-09T20:51:58.687-05:002012-01-09T20:51:58.687-05:00First off, conservatives hate the auto industry, w...First off, conservatives hate the auto industry, with its union-backed labor. <br /><br />While you are not incorrect, Noah, you are being far too kind. Conservatism, whatever else it might be about at any particular place and time, is always about a structured order in society, and that means defined classes.<br /><br />And it's impossible to think about class in American society without thinking about race.<br /><br />Ditto race --> slavery.<br /><br />The deepest rift in American society is that 150 years later, the basic social issue of the civil war is still an open, festering wound.<br /><br />It's a simple thing to aggravate it, even with very oblique touch points, and that is a big part of what factionalist conservatives are about.<br /><br />This has to be seen to be believed.<br /><br />http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2011/11/22/why-do-you-hate-america/<br /><br />JzBJazzbumpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-43620689481813165962012-01-09T18:16:20.053-05:002012-01-09T18:16:20.053-05:00if it's because of tribalism, why not viewing ...<i>if it's because of tribalism, why not viewing the whole nation as the tribe?</i><br /><br />Well, I wish people could.<br /><br />But you know, in the 80s and 90s, America <i>was</i> the world. The threat of the USSR had basically ended, and except for the (weak and brief) economic threat from Japan, there was not much in the way of an external tribe. So I think people fell to bickering over the spoils of America's runaway success.Noah Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09093917601641588575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-70025828060297464692012-01-09T17:13:47.219-05:002012-01-09T17:13:47.219-05:00Very easy: "Those &*$#ing minorities aren...Very easy: "Those &*$#ing minorities aren't in MY tribe!"<br /><br />Know anybody with that attitude? Can you say "southern strategy"? I knew you could.Mike Hubenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01371469964446567690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17232051.post-13707655216451926422012-01-09T16:14:19.799-05:002012-01-09T16:14:19.799-05:00I do not understand: if it's because of tribal...I do not understand: if it's because of tribalism, why not viewing the whole nation as the tribe?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14377623855540455028noreply@blogger.com