A Response To: "No to Jesus, Yes to Gangster Rap"
Read This First --------> Editorial Link
Bill,
Equating an inability to find negative commentary on "Gansta Rap" is not the same thing as condoning it. If their message is what you have an issue with, than comment on the message and not the people who write it. But, as is the trick and trade of many, you engage in an intellectual slight-of-hand that frees you to attack the messenger instead of the message. Furthermore, you use your personal attacks as a foil to expound on your own indignation with a particular rap star.
You use the extremely tired label of "left wing liberal media" to heap pejorative, personal attacks on other editorialist without actually engaging in a debate (that doesn't mean you talk and they listen) about their message. You lump in the current popularity of "The Passion" in order to hook your target demographic and to ensure that they side with you and then you display your "show card" about the editorials in question. Then, while your audience is waiting for a response to the editorials you switch the "show card" and when they look again you're now talking about "Gangsta Rap" and one particular artist with whom you apparently have personal issues.
What?
Somehow, you make the leap of logic that by NOT writing about a particular subject, in this case rap music, and BY writing about another subject, "The Passion", two subjects of complete opposite context, these "left-wing-liberal-elite-editorialist" are somehow supporting the subject they don't comment on or have not commented on in a negative fashion and they are "bashing" a subject that is blatently above criticism. Then, for good measure, you get a few licks in on a rap star you apparently don't personally like. So, in your mind at least, you succeed in somehow comparing ganster rap with the movie "The Passion" and then lead everyone to the "obvious" conclusion that the editorialist MUST be nuts not to see the black and white of right and wrong or good and bad. I mean, come on, a movie about Jesus is obviously better than rap music...right?
Wow, is that a debate technique they teach these days? Sounds more like ideologue propaganda school to me.
Come on Bill, we're not all that stupid.
Read This First --------> Editorial Link
Bill,
Equating an inability to find negative commentary on "Gansta Rap" is not the same thing as condoning it. If their message is what you have an issue with, than comment on the message and not the people who write it. But, as is the trick and trade of many, you engage in an intellectual slight-of-hand that frees you to attack the messenger instead of the message. Furthermore, you use your personal attacks as a foil to expound on your own indignation with a particular rap star.
You use the extremely tired label of "left wing liberal media" to heap pejorative, personal attacks on other editorialist without actually engaging in a debate (that doesn't mean you talk and they listen) about their message. You lump in the current popularity of "The Passion" in order to hook your target demographic and to ensure that they side with you and then you display your "show card" about the editorials in question. Then, while your audience is waiting for a response to the editorials you switch the "show card" and when they look again you're now talking about "Gangsta Rap" and one particular artist with whom you apparently have personal issues.
What?
Somehow, you make the leap of logic that by NOT writing about a particular subject, in this case rap music, and BY writing about another subject, "The Passion", two subjects of complete opposite context, these "left-wing-liberal-elite-editorialist" are somehow supporting the subject they don't comment on or have not commented on in a negative fashion and they are "bashing" a subject that is blatently above criticism. Then, for good measure, you get a few licks in on a rap star you apparently don't personally like. So, in your mind at least, you succeed in somehow comparing ganster rap with the movie "The Passion" and then lead everyone to the "obvious" conclusion that the editorialist MUST be nuts not to see the black and white of right and wrong or good and bad. I mean, come on, a movie about Jesus is obviously better than rap music...right?
Wow, is that a debate technique they teach these days? Sounds more like ideologue propaganda school to me.
Come on Bill, we're not all that stupid.
posted by Mike at 4:22 PM
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