Posted on 07/31/2017 5:56:16 AM PDT by simpson96
Think about how much worse life would be without the internet. We wouldn’t have video chats on Skype. We wouldn’t have baby pandas sneezing on YouTube. And we wouldn’t have Chelsea Clinton getting into an argument over philosophy and Nazism on Twitter.
It started when the former First Daughter tweeted a Washington Post article on Friday about an arson attack at a Phoenix LGBT center, along with the message “The banality of evil” — a phrase coined by 20th-century Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt in her classic book “Eichmann in Jerusalem.”
Brooklyn College political science professor Corey Robin thought that Clinton had misunderstood the phrase. “This is what happens when you know something as a cliche or slogan rather than as an idea,” he tweeted at her. “Totally the opposite of what Arendt meant. Sidwell Friends, Stanford, Oxford, Columbia: all that money for fancy schools, and nowhere did you learn the meaning of this phrase?”
But, to Robin’s surprise, Clinton responded, asking whether Robin had actually read the Post article and noted that she was “thankful to have read Arendt at Sidwell & Stanford.”
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They both should STFU.
She’s ditz. An ugly loudmouth ditz.
She wouldn’t know Hannah Arendt from Hannah Montana.
Whether she’s right or wrong, the tone of condescension in Chelsea’s reply was sickening.
She’s now fully formed - smug limosine liberal.
Just finished reading Corey Robin’s blog article about the encounter. While I agree that Chelsea did not understand “the banality of evil”, I was equally annoyed with the author’s constant patting of himself on the back for having engaged in an intellectual duel with the lightweight Chelsea.
Very interesting. The phrase was in her system.
How could this woman think that an arson attack was banal?
Of course, lately that famous phrase has been in the business of being debunked. It came about because Eichmann was a busy little beaver bureaucrat of the monstrous final solution.
Insight into the left. Clinton she shares a very particular view of evil. This one, for some reason, I find revealing.
Because of a psychosis?
He engaged in a takedown of the stupidest woman in America - a woman who has political ambitions, no doubt. He did fine. She finally ran away from his educated tweets.
Why do you have a problem with that?
” for having engaged in an intellectual duel with the lightweight Chelsea”
Is that like engaging in a gunfight with someone who’s carrying a cap pistol?
I refuse to get into a battle of wits with an unarmed person...............
Isn’t Herself a Brown graduate? If so, doesn’t say much about the Ivy League.
I call bullsh*t.
The banality of liberalism.....................
Chelsea has lots of wit; half, dim, nit...
Hell would be to be stuck forever in a room listening to Chelsea Clinton and Corey Robin.
“L’enfer c’est les autres.”
Sartre, “hell is other people.” Well, certain other people. Such as Chelsea Clinton and Corey Robin.
Smug limousine libtard vs smug academic twit.
Your description is dismissive. I can guess why. Clinton made the mistake of discussing evil, which the first reply rightly noticed. The first reply really defends Clinton—don’t talk about evil.
So she did learn from Barack Obama after all. Never let a good crisis go to waste. She saw another opportunity to pander to the LGBTLMNOP crowd, and took it, regardless of the facts or motive behind the attack. Just like a good little liberal.
I don't have a problem with the smackdown of Chelsea at all. But if you read his blog account, it is dripping with self-aggrandizement as he describes blow-by-blow how he destroyed her argument and how flabbergasted he was that "Chelsea read my tweet". The twitter exchange should have stood on its own. His recounting of the exchange on his blog reminded me of the commercial in which a fisherman describes his battle to land a huge ferocious fish, which turns out to be about the size of a sardine.
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