Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Purple Oregon

I've occasionally taken a trip over to Blue Oregon, a site dedicated to more liberal Oregonians opinions. Some of the topics are interesting, and there are lots of open discussion posts, one or two of which I've participated in.
Now comes a post where they point out that there are some right wing, Northwest blogs that all you right wing nuts can flock to and quit wasting their time with horrible right wing slander.
Uh huh. Is that what they call it. It's true that there is some vitriol coming from the right in the comments of open posts, but not much. There's much more from the reaction of left wing readers of the site.
Really what they are encouraging is right leaning readers to vacate, when what is left will just be an echo chamber for leftist ideas, and no response coming from the right, tempering their ideas. I'm not saying that the right will always be the logical, correct opinion, but left leaning arguments fall short often enough that there should be honest debate.
But Blue Oregon seems not to care.
Well... you know what they say about not letting the door hit you in the rear as you leave. If the neo-cons were spending their time here discussing points of disagreement on issues, they wouldn't be getting asked to leave. They're being asked to leave because the majority of the posts from neo-cons here consists of piles of personal insults with little actual factual content.
Well, that's not what I've seen. So the attitude is unfortunate. I certainly don't want Blue Oregon becoming another DailyKos, or DemocraticUnderground.

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