{"id":250,"date":"2003-11-13T15:03:07","date_gmt":"2003-11-13T15:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:24","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:24","slug":"chickenhawks_and_other_interest_group_politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"Chickenhawks And Other Interest Group Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had an “aha” moment about the chickenhawk debate<\/a> this morning.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t about the fact that it’s used as a slur, with the intent of shaming people into silencing debate (which I obviously think of as a bad thing). It was a moment in which the argument also illuminated what I have trouble supporting at the core of progressive values (and I’m not talking about self-righteousness).<\/p>\n

Think of it in terms of a ‘community of interest groups,’ rather than ‘a community’ and find the parallel arguments:<\/p>\n

* No one who could be and isn’t serving should speak out on Iraq;<\/p>\n

* No one except women of child-bearing age should speak out on abortion;<\/p>\n

* No one who isn’t poor should speak out on welfare;<\/p>\n

* No one who isn’t in school should speak out on education;<\/p>\n

* No one who isn’t (I can’t decide on this one between ‘a criminal’ and ‘a victim of crime’) should speak out on criminal justice.<\/p>\n

It’s a fun game and all can play; add your own in the comments below.<\/p>\n

And it’s horribly destructive, if you see the tie that connects us as Americans as the bonds of common obligation and ‘reverence’ that Schaar talks about below<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just thinkin’…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had an “aha” moment about the chickenhawk debate this morning. It wasn’t about the fact that it’s used as a slur, with the intent of shaming people into silencing debate (which I obviously think of as a bad thing). It was a moment in which the argument also illuminated what I have trouble supporting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}