More Wisdom on the Campos-phere

Protein Wisdom weighs in with insightful comments on the Campos-Reynolds Texas Steel Cage Match that tend to reinforce HazZzMat's previous observations on this brouhaha:

...one should think that a law professor is able to choose his words precisely, so by employing loaded terms like “fascist” and “extremist,” Campos, we must conclude, is using them intentionally, meaning he is here operating less as a law professor than as an overzealous prosecutor trying to set a pitch for his “arguments,” such as they are.

(Comment: That's a charitable interpretation, for sure! )

And they aren’t much—which explains why Campos relies so heavily on crass hyperbole and argument by insinuation and emotional appeal to craft his calculated outrage. In fact, the entire piece is nothing but bully and bluster meant to shame his opponent and taint him, in the minds of readers, with the associated deeds of those who we have historically identified as either “fascists” or “extremists.” It is, if you will, practically Nifongesque.

Precisely. As we've indicated many times in this blog, the whole idea is to demonize the opponent via baseless slander and smears in order to avoid dealing with the argument at hand by turning it into a discussion of your opponent's character. The left never debates, only denounces. It's a dialectical tool having nothing to do with logic or legality, since leftists don't believe in either. Only the party line. (BTW, the final reference is to the disgracefully ambitious Durham County D.A. and Chief Persecutor Paul Nifong, the Duke lacrosse team's now former High Inquisitor.)

But we digress. Wise Protein finds that this kind of garbage dumping

...is, after all, a rather standard tactic now for the “progressive” left’s more vocal advocates—but it is ironic, nevertheless, given that it is people like Campos who, in perfectly distilled moments of clinical-grade projection, are literally working to enact a form of intellectual fascism, even as they see all around them phantasmagorical attempts by “extremists” like Glenn Reynolds (!) to oppress them.

Which, unfortunately, is what happens once you begin locating in positions that differ from yours elements of “hate speech” in need of “policing”—or, in this case, even the need for some sort of professional intervention.

Indeed. BTW, for the umpteenth time, "progressive" is the sanitized, MSM way to describe Marxists and/or socialists so they don't have to labor under either of these terminological taints. Protein (aka Jeff Goldstein) recognizes this by encasing the term in well-deserved scare quotes.

In this as well as other incidents, the lefties always emerge as the fascists and Stalinists they are, although the MSM refuse to report it that way. Lefties have no logical answers for their critics who are invariably correct 100% of the time since they are employing logic over party cant and pointless dialectical wrestling matches meant only to confuse and distract the public.