Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Time to cut her loose

Catherine Deveny in The Age seems to be reaching some sort of peak in her recent obnoxious anti-everyone-except-those-who-think-exactly-like-her campaign:
I've recently found myself embedded in the above conversations with morons pretending to be people who have said things that made me wince and think: ''Where do I start? If they don't get the basics, what else don't they get?...
She's a "Bright" who shows how dangerous "Brights" can be.

She made a complete goose of herself on Q&A a couple of weeks ago.

Editors: when your columnist starts suggesting that her opponents are not human, it's surely time to cut her loose and let her practice her advocacy on the street corner.

1 comment:

Geoff said...

Yes she is awfully smug and self-righteous but she would have to wait in line to jettisoned for that failing amongst columnists.

Wouldn't it be nice if columnists of all political persuations decided that they did not have a monopoly on common sense and the truth. Such certainty always worries me and does lend to demonising opponents. I think the tendancy to oversimplify the issues, ignore the subjective and reduce the human elements is very attractive because we no longer have to treat others as we would wish to be treated. She would do well to learn nice.