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Old 04-15-2011, 12:53 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by rubecube View Post
Agreed. I find too much academic rhetoric can be suffocating and counter-productive at times, but hyperbolic anti-intellectualism is so much worse.
And this McCarthy-ism lite, too. Ignatieff is guilty of thought-crime, or, at best, naivete, for maybe referencing Mao during a political debate with the PM.

Personally, I felt his quote was in context, and didn't necessarily point to what Adler and "Bono" were insinuating. But WHO CARES!
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