Chickenhawk? Really? Are we just gonna adopt everything from the Left?
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Replying to @seanmdav
Chickenhawk is a dumb word and it deserves to be mocked out of the language. Max is typically overwrought, but it *is* true both that neoconservative is often misused as a term, and that its misuse has often accompanied anti-Semitic rhetoric. http://www.baseballcrank.com/archives2/2008/03/politics_power.php …
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Replying to @baseballcrank @seanmdav
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@MaxBoot@EliLake How about the people who still wear the neoconservative label proudly? (#AskingForAFriend)2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @tobinharshaw @baseballcrank and
Neocon is conservative who migrated from the left, or in the words of Irving K, was mugged by reality. At least that’s what it should mean. Agree that it’s too often a lazy slur.
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Replying to @EliLake @tobinharshaw and
Used properly, neoconservative foreign policy does have a distinct meaning, central to which is preferences for (1) US engagement in the world & (2) for promoting more democratic & responsive govts abroad & fewer autocracies & tyrannies. Doesn't assume invading everywhere.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @EliLake and
The widespread support for the Iraq war among neoconservatives is a legitimate factor in this conversation, but not the overriding one. It's also fair to note it implies a tendency to lean center-left on domestic social policies, but not blindly
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Replying to @tobinharshaw @baseballcrank and
Yes the Iraq war tarnished the brand so much that most neoconservatives have adapted by saying there is no such thing really anymore.
@MaxBoot is just expressing an argument in public that I've heard in private many times. And it's a silly argument but often effective in my exp2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @EvansRyan202 @tobinharshaw and
Most use it as a lazy epithet, without understanding its intellectual context and history. Neocon is too often a sign of blustery evasion. It’s deployed to end a debate without engaging.
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Yep. Now, I get that the word is a particular branding problem if you are a former neoconservative in good standing trying to reinvent yourself for an audience on the Left.
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