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thoughts on u.s. foreign policy, politics, popular culture and anything else.... prepared for my history students at william paterson university in new jersey, but open to all.... proud member of the reality-based community since sometime in late childhood....
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- "The Resentment Tribe"
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- Left vs. Right in public discourse -- Part 1
- Advice for the Democrats from Friedman
- Kirkuk
- Tonight on PBS: Slavery and the Making of America
- The Women Behind the Myths
- History and National Identity -- Colonialism
- Global warming: a threat to world security?
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- Why does David Kay hate America?
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- "What I Heard About Iraq"
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- Haliburton in Iran
- A Quiz
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4 comments:
You are incorrect, the terms comes for "left-wing nut". That is all.
Steve
So do right-wingers use the term to describe lefties? And, either way, is it a slur?
dm
You have a casual acquaintance with the person they should understand a friendly joke. As long as you weren’t using your status or authority abusively I see no harm in it. Worse things have happened in the history of man.
Steve
Well, it's not a compliment, usually. The term is divorced from "right" and "left" because people wanted a generic term for someone who is unhinged in a particular direction. I've seen bloggers use it to describe not right/left partisanship, but all kinds of wacky fringe positions, strongly held. Mostly it's used as a "cute" slur on the people whose views are polar to your own, though, so I'd be careful about context.
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