Not a stratospheric bar
So this is what they think of us.
Of conservative writers, Kevin Williamson is one of those most willing to be heterodox, most committed to reality-based reporting, with a bold intellect and indomitable character. But the philistine progressive mob can’t stand him. Why? Because he won’t bend the knee…to them.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 28, 2018
Heterodox, bold, indomitable – that’s how we describe a columnist who advocates hanging for women who end their pregnancies?
It’s “philistine progressive” to say a columnist who advocates hanging for women who end their pregnancies shouldn’t be on the staff of a mainstream magazine? On the grounds that advocating hanging for millions of women should not be normalized in that way? If only we were less “philistine” we would understand the profundity and subtlety and artistry of advocating hanging for millions of women? It’s “heterodox” to advocate hanging for millions of women? Heterodox and bold and indomitable? It’s not murderous and genocidal and misogynist?
Nobody expects conservatives to agree with everything left, or they wouldn’t be conservatives. We expect them to be decent human beings who would not execute women for a medical procedure we don’t think should be illegal. That’s not a stratospheric bar.
— Ms Goodlibrarian (@goodlibrarian) March 29, 2018
Feminist: It’s not enough that a woman isn’t screaming ‘no,’ you should actually get affirmative consent before having sex with her
Conservatives: “You’re trying to emasculate men! You want to railroad men into prison! Misandrist!”
Williamson: 25% of American women are murderers who should be executed.
Conservatives: “Well, I don’t quite agree, but what a bold, provocative thinker!”
Par for the course for Bill Kristol. Being monumentally wrong — factually, politically, morally, and in every other way — has been his role in public life for as long as he’s been in public life.
True, but with this weird warp in the field we’ve been seeing Bill Kristol make sense, so we’re disoriented. It’s all so confusing.
Yes? No? Who knows what kind of things a philistine progressive might do!
Or what one even is…
I think G Felix overstates the badness of Bill Kristol, so this disappoints me. Hopefully Kristol wasn’t specifically referring to the hanging for abortions stuff, although I don’t know how you really set that aside and discuss other matters.