Michael Kinsley’s Blue ... Are You Too?
Is Michael Kinsley to be taken seriously? In his “Am I Blue?” article (Commentary, Nov. 7), he suggests that his values favoring abortion and gay marriage are less arrogant than conservative values to the contrary because they “don’t involve any direct imposition” on conservatives.
Memo to Mr. Kinsley: Abortion imposes death on millions of innocent unborn human beings, and gay marriage imposes a complete redefinition of the very institution that stabilizes our society. So let’s reconsider the term “arrogant” and decide to whom it more aptly applies.
Arlene H. Platten
Redondo Beach
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It’s good that Kinsley apologized for everything he believed in. He should. And he can go now.
Winston Francis
Cypress
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So, in summary, we can’t be red, because we’re gray, not black and white, except when we’re blue! Which a few of us still are, after the results.
Duane Eckelberg
Phoenix
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Cheers to Kinsley for exposing the hypocrisy of the conservative labeling machine. His point is exemplified by John Krikorian’s letter to the editor published on the same day. Krikorian writes that “liberals” should move to the “center of America” in light of Bush’s “overwhelming mandate.”
That sounds a bit cocky, even to this member of the depressed, arrogant, elitist, immoral, liberal far left.
I don’t know what is more maddening, the Republican Party’s incessant name-calling or the degree to which its followers regurgitate these lazy caricatures of Democrats.
Joshua Ellingson
Valencia
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Kinsley protests that it is conservatives and not liberals that are arrogant and elitist. Yet The Times gave us an Oct. 7 editorial titled “Is He a Dope?” That Kinsley fails to see the arrogance and elitism in this charming headline suggests the problem may be irreparable.
On the issue of abortion and the imposition that the conservative would force upon the liberal: For just a moment, change the perspective from that of the pro-life or pro-choice advocate and look at it from the perspective of the unborn child. He has the potential to live a full and happy life, if the mother is so tolerant as to allow him to come to term.
Which point of view do you think he would find arrogant and elitist?
Robert Chapman
Downey