Political Blogging (a disjointed ramble)
Yes, I blog about some politics. But when I think about blogging and politics, I have to chuckle. For example:
Mark Glaser writes about something called BlogNashville, apparently a kind of blogger conference started by a conservative who found too many liberals at the previous blogger conference. And there is a bit of a brew-up going on about the lack of civility in the discussions there.
A lack of civility in a discussion between internet bloggers? What a surprise. Next thing you’ll be telling me is that there’s a lot of water in the oceans on this planet.
Seriously, those two statements do rank pretty closely on the credibility scale. I mean, just why would you think that people who have grown accustomed to belittling and abusing folks would stop doing it simply because the targets were physically present in the room? I suppose if you come from the point of view that they were basically hypocrites, and were only talking the way they were because the other person wasn’t in view you might be surprised.
But that’s the problem. They’re not hypocrites, they’re perfectly sincere.
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