This guy needs to go away.
From the context of your comments, I took equivocation to be a willingness to excuse or mitigate the actions of others. That's done often enough on the left, especially when it comes to sentencing reform, discipline in schools and discussions of poor decisions made by people who are impoverished.
On the point about equivalences, postmodernism started in left-wing academia as a way to suggest that things we find reprehensible as a society have equal moral weight. There are plenty of left-wing defenses of antisemitism in the Muslim world.
Going with the most common definition of equivocation (being vague about where you stand), that one is done by some conservatives, but it's hardly exclusive to them. In some cases, there's a lack of information that would make it difficult to make an exact statement on the implications of an action. Liberals will also often be vague about the intended and likely effects of policies, especially when it's in a controversial direction before the country's on board. I don't recall anyone on the left saying that someone who refuses to aid a gay marriage in a professional policy should be fined in the presidential elections before it started happening. There will also often be support for massive spending programs without sufficient explanations about where the money is coming from.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
What's he failing to do?
Nope.
http://deadline.com/2017/09/redskins...bc-1202176141/
The current explanation for the statues means that they weren't meant for white southerners, but that they were meant primarily to send a message to others (IE- black southerners/ northerners.) That doesn't really jibe with the obsession with the lost cause.
Granted, this would be a thing where evidence is going to be hard to find. If someone reads a diary entry by an ancestor who served on a city council and brags about how they're putting a statue of a confederate soldier in the black part of town to keep them in line, that diary's probably not getting shared with anyone else.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
San Juan mayor: "We're having a humanitarian crisis here"
Puerto Rico is suffering and the Trump admin isn't doing enough to help.
San Juan mayor: 'This is a big S.O.S. for anybody out there'
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I don't really watch cable or TV news.
My main sources would be podcasts and online news, although I do read The Atlantic, New York and New Yorker.
I regularly check out RCP, the New York Times, 538 and Daily Beast. My RSS feed includes the conservative blog Hot Air, National Review online, Outside the Beltway, International Business Times, Mediaite, NPR's It's All Politics, Taegan Goddard's Political Wire, POLITICO- Top Stories, Slate's News & Politics, Eric Ostermeier's Smart Politics, The Fix, The New Yorker, The American Prospect, Thinkprogress, Esquire's News & Politics, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the Mary Sue.
Podcasts I listen to almost all the time are Slate's Political Gabfest, the New Yorker's political roundtable, KCRW's Left, Right, and Center, NPR's On The Media and a few National Review podcasts (Three Martini Lunch, Ricochet, Mad Dogs and Englishmen.) On occasion, I'll listen to Brian Lehrer, Slate's Trumpcast (not a pro-Trump series), David Axelrod's Axe files, Politically Reactive, Vox's The Weeds and the Ezra Klein Show.
Come to think of it, a big part of my news consumption is online forums. I've been active on this thread for about two years. I was active on the Bendis board political thread for a few years back. I'll also get a lot of links on twitter, and there's a political forum I've been somewhat active in for a few years.
I also know some people who work in DC (congressional staffers.)
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
I've disliked Medved ever since he spoiled Million Dollar Baby because he didn't like the message. That's the main thing I know about him.
I don't know the others. I don't really listen to conventional talk radio. The handful of radio shows I listen to I get as podcasts, and I'll be exposed to those in a different way (IE- I'll listen to Brian Lehrer if he has a segment on a topic I'm interested in, rather than because it's on at a particular time.)
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
Back in the day, I used to listen to Ray Taliaferro on KGO. NPR, BCC, Radio Africa, Radio Free Europe. I read the Atlantic, New York and New Yorker. Haven't read the Washington Post in a while. I do occasionally peruse the corporate news media TV channels. Not much of a blog reader.
Listened to KILI Radio 90.1(Reservation)/88.7(Rapid City) FM.
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