tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512669.post2448050324611839507..comments2023-07-21T06:38:14.648-04:00Comments on Shadow of the Hegemon: Jon Stewart Needs to Get the Hell Over ItDemostheneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14552994996411944134noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512669.post-402683233680439732011-01-30T17:18:45.017-05:002011-01-30T17:18:45.017-05:00Godwin's Law is a critique of online debate. I...Godwin's Law is a critique of online debate. It's not a hard-and-fast thing. To totally rule out any comparison to the Nazi Regime is to ignore one of the most important lessons of that point in history: <i>that sort of evil and delusion is within all of us</i>. It is our duty to recognize it and stand against it when necessary, not to hide from the darkness within ourselves and our contemporaries by pretending that <i>we're</i> immune to all the things that afflicted <i>them</i>.<br /><br />And the October rally was ludicrous because Stewart's acting like a coward; he's pretending that both sides are precisely mirrored when they aren't, and claims that "everybody should just compromise" when said compromise <i><b>would be harmful to both America and the people that live within it</b></i>. Yes, he wielding irony, but only in the sense that Exiled mocked so effectively: by elevating self-aggrandizement and a foolish detachment over any desire to actually <b>do</b> something and <b>believe</b> something.<br /><br />(Which is sad, because as we saw with the first responder case, he can be quite effective when he chooses to put away the irony and DO something.)Demostheneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14552994996411944134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3512669.post-87049905092723100922011-01-29T19:10:53.759-05:002011-01-29T19:10:53.759-05:00I read your post, and then read Digby (and some of...I read your post, and then read Digby (and some of the comments), and then I watched the actual clip from the Daily show. It seems both you and Digby are misrepresenting Jon Stewart's criticism of Cohen. Stewart concedes that the republicans are liars; it's Cohen's implication that they are Nazis that he takes issue with. This is consistent with the message of the October rally: once the invective starts, any possibility of meaningful discussion is over. And this is especially true when someone mentions the Nazis! See this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_lawAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com