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The ?Ground Zero mosqe? and the politics of assimilation

By Alliance Alert

"[T]he goal seems to be to shame and stigmatize one?s opponents as part of a "war of position" over which message will dominate mass media, the schools, and other institutions that govern cultural reproduction. Those who embrace this strategy, implicitly or explicitly, can justify it to themselves pretty easily by defining their opponents as irrational or subrational Nazi-like hate-mongers. This might be the most effective strategy for people who want to change the culture."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 19, 2010 (boomark / email).