tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864439.post111836008742042686..comments2024-02-10T21:39:46.108-06:00Comments on Mark in Mexico: Janice Rogers Brown on slaves and slaveryMark Lincolnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07435819060643436598noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864439.post-1118508821346708972005-06-11T11:53:00.000-05:002005-06-11T11:53:00.000-05:00The problem with Janice Rogers Brown is that she i...The problem with Janice Rogers Brown is that she is an extremist. Nothing you are saying here, and especially the references to Hayek and Rand, do anything to dispell that. She hates the government and does nothing to hide that fact. <BR/><BR/> Are you really saying that if a liberal stated that President Bush was a slave to the oil industry you wouldn't really mind because you would understand that what is really being said is that President Bush is simply subject to special influence from the oil industry?<BR/><BR/> Somehow, I think not.<BR/><BR/>XTXpatriated Texanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16202309776546699202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6864439.post-1118424761740989492005-06-10T12:32:00.000-05:002005-06-10T12:32:00.000-05:00The original text of my post (which I edited prior...The original text of my post (which I edited prior to finalizing) did suggest that if she was including a reference to affirmative action in the reference to dependency I agreed with her on that one small point. I removed my comments because taken in context with the rest of her statement, she most certainly did not limit her references to expectation of entitlements and affirmative action didn't seem quite as relevant.<BR/><BR/><BR/>If, indeed, you are correct and this was her actual point she should have used the term socialism since that is the term frequently thrown in the face of liberalism; in other words, she'd appear to be the one who is linguistically challenged much like one who tries to sound intellectual by finding synonyms in a thesaurus for use when there is a more clear/direct/relevant term that should be used. Additionally, when using a less commonly utilized definition of a term, especially one that is emotionally charged (slavery is one of those words, and I am pretty confident she chose that word intentionally), a speaker trying to make a legitimate and specific point generally acknowledges the limited focus of his/her point.Ol Crankyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03062952528573304148noreply@blogger.com