Quit helping, Ted

YOU ARE VISITING THE OLD MALKIN(S)WATCH. THAT'S FANTASTIC. PLEASE VISIT THE NEW MALKIN(S)WATCH WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE.

On my previous blog, which I'm not gonna link to because it wasn't all that good, I wrote this about Ted Rall around the time of his last major controversy:

Rall is entitled to his opinions - about Pat Tillman, about the US Army's similarities to the SS, or about the best ways to deliver his opinions for maximum effect. But just as anarchists practice physical violence, Ted Rall seems determined to practice, well, metaphysical violence.

The politics of alienation is the politics of cowardice. The politics of firebombing Starbucks, of spiking trees so that loggers are at risk, of throwing bottles at police at a "peace" rally, or simply of closing people's hearts and minds - is the politics of those whose worst nightmare is apparently their own success.

True change for the better comes not by force but by convincement. Not by polarism but by compromise. Not instantly but in stages. The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

Laurence J. Peter said, "A man convinced against his will is not convinced." Ted Rall has apparently surrendered all hope of convincing anyone.

I dusted off this passage because of this cartoon, which Malkin links to as more evidence of "hatefulness on the Left". And you know what? Ted Rall should know better.

Update: I have changed the cartoon link to the correct one.