e-Claire

Ace: More than just another pretty face

"slicing like a hammer"

So long as those who actually represent the true national consensus falsely believe they hold a minority or even “extremist” view—a belief imposed on them by a monolithically partisan media—they will not agitate for change nor express their true political wishes, for belief that such an effort would be futile.

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Zero-entry-cost media—blogging—doesn’t allow that false belief to persist as long as it once could.  Again, not because bloggers are saying what the public doesn’t already know; but because we’re saying what the public damn well knows, but just isn’t really sure enough other people know too.

And a particularly pointed question:

A lot of Muslims seem to subscribe to the anti-American, jihadist worldview.  But to what extent is that a deeply-held actual belief, and to what extent is it parroted because Muslims believe it’s the “Islamically correct” sort of thing to say?

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