Liars! Cheaters! Evildoers!: Demonization and the End of Civil Debate in American PoliticsNYU Press, 2005 - Всего страниц: 228 The level of vitriol in American politics has been rising with no end in sight. Terms like “evildoer,” “war on terror,” and “axis of evil” have become commonplace in our discussion of international politics. What ever happened to civil debate? Where has all this moralizing come from? And what harm has this new level of attack caused to democracy in America? |
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... suggested that Clinton had engineered the murder of presidential counsel Vincent Foster.2 George Will, a respected columnist and commentator on ABC TV, called the Clintons “vulgarians.” He also went so far as to imply that they were ...
... suggest that others have very bad, immoral, or evil qualities, and often that they are capable of quite immoral deeds; or to directly suggest that they have done reprehensible deeds. Second, to do so without sufficient evidence, inquiry ...
... suggests why simple definitions alone will not solve the problem. Deciding whether someone is engaging in demonization is itself an irreducibly political question. The best we can do is know as clearly as possible what we mean by ...
... suggest that political rhetoric that alienates some people and which can do harm may emanate from the political ... suggesting that, on the one hand, you could irrationally do this, and on the other you could irrationally do that, so why ...
... suggest that ideological distortion, which we suggest includes demonization, is best combated by framing one set of “neutral,” rational, or commonsense assumptions to which all reasonable citizens can agree and from which discussion and ...
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Americas Moral Paradox | 44 |
4 The Deep Divide and the Most Vulnerable | 64 |
Part II
Demonization and Wars Seeking the Enemy | 85 |
6 Terror Evil and the New Cold War | 102 |
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Terror Wars and Culture Wars | 129 |
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Preserve the Environment Become an Environmental Sport | 149 |
Conclusion | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Index | 221 |
About the Authors | 228 |
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