The Assault on Objectivity

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It detracts from the article considerably that it can't bother to mention any of the multiple right-wing assaults on objectivity.

a bit ironic isn't it.


Doesn't make the points raised wrong though.

No, but it does make the intended conclusion profoundly wrong.

maybe, lets see

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like you said before, they are (conveniently) only sh**tting on one side here, but the conclusion (political violence is bad, m'kay, it makes more sense to use reason instead of emotion when forming opinions) is the right one.  Isn't it?

But that's not the conclusion they intend readers to make. The conclusion they want made is that liberals are all fomenting a violent assault on righteous peaceful traditional values.

Correct answer. Sadly, that is the fundamental point of this article. That political violence is bad is merely a backdrop here.