As an example, my comments on the Guardian were finally let through, on another computer. On THIS computer, though, no comments are visible. Here is the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/14/derrida-biography-benoit-peeters-review#start-of-comments
It may be a technical glitch, but I have refreshed multiple times, and can’t get any comments to come up.
I know this is possible because I remember reading some years ago that the San Francisco Chronicle was using this technique to censor conservatives WITHOUT THEM KNOWING IT.
We all remember, don’t we, what we were taught in school? To respect the opinions of others, to engage with them creatively and substantively in the hope of a synergistic improvement in the views of both of us?
What happens when people get into universities, now, is they become ILLiberal. They become little fascists, who want to kill all thoughts that take them away from their new and improved identities as pod people. And some of these people have high IQ’s, which means that they can deploy their destructive emotions effectively in the intellectual realm.
When you look at people like Paul Krugman or Barack Obama, what you need to see is a little child inside, raging against a world it doesn’t control and furious about it, and just wanting to smash everything. And I will readily grant neither is likely aware of this. As I have said, that is the role their politics plays: an effective cover for their real intent. It hides it from them, and from onlookers.
Update: Sure enough, I got home and comments were enabled. What they have likely done is hide either all comments–which seems to be the case–or just mine, which would be more work, I would think.
Fuck you Terry Eagleton, you power mongering, morally vacuous cowardly piece of shit.