Sunday, June 25, 2006

Speaking freely about shutting up

The big rightwing blogger, Michelle Malkin - who I don't believe I've ever linked to - photoshops some older propaganda posters to her liking here. The collective message is apparently that liberals (with the New York Times as commander-in-chief) ought not to speak about the war or they are otherwise traitors. It's a curious exercise in shut-up-ism since it attempts to reclaim messages that we generally view as anachronistic, and often shameful, and assume that this is the "moral high ground."

2 comments:

Dan Nexon said...

"attempts to reclaim messages that we generally view as anachronistic, and often shameful, and assume that this is the "moral high ground.""

This is unusual from the "internment was a good idea" slice of the right-wing?

helmut said...

There's a case to be made for a conservative-style interpretation of social and moral norms here, isn't there? And I don't mean "conservative" in the dictatorial Malkinesque sense, but in the sense that there's a case to be made for the wisdom of evolved sets of norms, traditions, and standards.

Malkin seems to be a tad more on the Marinetti side.