I keep seeing examples of Thatcher Derangement Syndrome, they’re so common that it’s hardly worth linking to make the point. Here’s one from Clive Aslet that I saw on Tim’s blog:
It is partly the rise of selfish individualism, at the expense of the shared values of restraint. The Sixties had [...]
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Yuppies, juppies, guppies and Thatcher
Otherhood and apple pie
16 Jul 2010 at 13:51
Peter Risdon
Derangement Syndromes, Liberalism, Middle East, WibbleWatch, self-refuting arguments
Queen of the Idiocracy, Judith Butler, has been trying to climb out of a hole of her own digging:
AVIVA-Berlin: How do you feel about the accusation that you have perhaps taken an anti-Semitic position concerning your statement about the Hamas and the Hezbollah as progressive social movements? (On: http://radicalarchives.org/2010/03/28/jbutler-on-hamas-hezbollah-israel-lobby/) Does that [...]
Deeply-held beliefs
In the context of Gordon Brown’s Bigotbottom scandal, Cranmer had this to say:
Even intelligent commentators seem to think it unarguable that deeply-held beliefs against immigration, homosexuality or some religious beliefs are bigoted.
He writes as though it were a good thing to hold strong beliefs. This is a common error. That someone might have any beliefs [...]