Red Tory v.2.0
It's something our media, at least officially, seems indifferent to...the sheer "dog whistle" effect that Conservative messaging seems to have, especially when you bother to observe the "dogs" who respond to it.
Admittedly, it's become far less blatant than during the Reform era, but the tendencies are still there. Given how Dion tends to be attacked on elements that suggest weakness, effeminacy and French-ness, you are constantly left wondering and have serious questions about the true nature of this party.
Also, the few cases that have come to light of hideous trolls employed by the Conservative Party makes you wonder, all the time, what's happening when no outsider is allowed to observe.
Ti-Guy — I’ll admit to having my suspicions in that regard also. That’s why I don’t trust this lot as far as I could throw them (which these days, isn’t saying much). You’ve pointed this out before on the old blog in the comments and elsewhere about the puzzling reluctance for the most part of Cons to lambaste their fellow travellers who engage in what, for lack of a better term, can be described as “hate speech.” It’s something that frustrates me no end, and I’ll give all due props to decent folks like “Kingston” who will actually stand up against this sort of rubbish. But generally speaking, the Cons just sit on their hands, say nothing, or blithely whistle past the graveyard. One has to conclude therefore that a good many of them tacitly approve of it, even if they don’t actually overtly cheer it on.
But generally speaking, the Cons just sit on their hands, say nothing, or blithely whistle past the graveyard.
A vanishingly small number of them simply accept this as an issue of free expression in the anarcho-libertarian sense that there is value (although don't me ask what, since I'm a firm believer in contemplation and meditation when you have nothing useful to say) when beliefs and feelings find expression.
Problem is, most Blogging Tories are anything but libertarians or anarchists. So the silence is puzzling.
...actually it isn't. It really is the fact that most of the bloggers are letting their commenters express the things they want to say without being held responsible, and it's high time the rest of us stop thinking it's anything else.
I’ve long maintained that to be the case with many of them.
Some of their posts are little more than open invitations trolling for despicable commentary that reflects their own viewpoints, but that they’re too gutless (or savvy, depending on your POV) to express openly.
Some of their posts are little more than open invitations trolling for despicable commentary that reflects their own viewpoints
No kidding. You can just imagine the responses to the following posts:
1. Picture of Hilary Clinton;
2. Link to a CBC report with no commentary;
3. A one-word post...maybe "progressivism" or "hetero-normative;"
I can hear the shrieking already.
Those for sure, although I was thinking more along the lines of the ones that suggestively play to certain stereotypes and tacitly prompt readers to vent their spleens and pile on accordingly.
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