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That’s an ad hom, so not sure what your point is. I was responding to the content in the essay. edit: And based on what he wrote, he seems pretty in touch with
by programmarchy 8y ago
That’s an ad hom, so not sure what your point is. I was responding to the content in the essay.
edit: And based on what he wrote, he seems pretty in touch with American culture to me. Kind of proves his point on the distinction between class and elite.
- charlesism 8y agoThat’s an ad hom Pretty much. If Queen Elizabeth wrote an essay advocating a return to absolute monarchy, I'd do the same.
- linksnapzz 8y agoQE2 is about as likely to start writing lurid romance novels as she is to write anything approaching that. The Mountbatten-Windsor-Saxe-Coberg-Gotha-Hanovers have been in the royal family business for 300 years precisely because they are disinclined to have exactly that opinion. The Price of Wales has stated that he'll stop having public opinions about health food and modern architecture when he accedes...nobody, least of all him, thinks he should have any thoughts at all about the Proper Role of the Monarch in Government, and if it should change.
- charlesism 8y agoQE2 is about as likely to start writing lurid romance novels as she is to write anything approaching that. I didn't mean to suggest it would ever happen (Cut to Nigel Farage weeping)
- dpwm 8y agoIdentifying a clearly vested interest and inherent bias in a person defending the system that they personally benefited from is a fairly accepted standard part of critical discourse. Without being critical of the origin of ideas and the interests that lay behind them, you're vulnerable to all sorts of manipulation. Think of the thousands of man hours that can go into producing content you can consume in hours. Regarding the content of the essay, I stopped reading at the straw-man guilt-by-association definition of levellers -- quite clearly an attempt to manipulate.