Note how frequently “progressives” from Obama on down (to, say, a Toronto Star writer I argued with recently) now use the word “divisive” as a prejorative.
Why is divisiveness a bad thing? Why is “unity” always a good? Aren’t the “issues that divide us” precisely where our principles and passions lie?
Obama’s right: Jerry Falwell was a divisive figure. So was Abe Lincoln (and NO, I’m not equating the two…)
Are progressives trying to smuggle a more insidious concept into public discourse by using the word “divisive” as an insult?
I’ve yet to hear a conservative employ the word. Why not?
What can I say? I feel it’s helpful to keep watch on leftists’ words de jour, even though I probably give their “deeper meaning” more thought than they do themselves. Your mileage may vary.
BS quote of the year: “Communism does not mean everyone and everything is The Same. ”
There are 300 million graves filled with people who were “different” than the communist accepted uniform norm.
The communist state system does not allow diversity of thought, opinion, or orthodoxy. The greatest crime in soviet society is to question the status quo or dissent with prevailing opinion/politics.
Communism is just the statist form or socialism….North American socialism bears many traits of its statist parent…the one we see most often is the intolerance od diversity of opion and dissent to socialist othodoxies.
…requirement for ‘getting along with each other’ (the basis of Christianity).
If “getting along with each other” (a la Rodney King) were the basis for Christianity, Christ wouldn’t have been crucified.
He was crucified because He didn’t go along with the doctrines of the scribes and Pharisees.
He even took a cat o nine tails and drove the sellers of mite infested doves for sacrifice from the temple.