Dismissing causal analysis as disrespect masks refusal to argue

Evidence

Despite what the increasingly hysterical Pro-Bombing “Left” (PBL) maintain, the causal argument is won. (A testament to this is the way in which the PBL refuse even to have the argument. As one, they have wagged their finger at anyone who has pointed out the obvious causal chain linking US and British foreign policy with Thursday’s events, tut-tutting about the unseemliness of “politicising” the atrocity “even before the bodies are buried”, as if contempt for neo-imperialist Shock and Awe somehow equated to lack of respect for the victims of the attacks in London, as if their own columns were disinterested and neutral, and as if solemn moralising rather than political analysis were what is called for.) The claim that the bombing of Iraq has been a recruiting sergeant for terrorism is uncontroversial. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1426

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Challenging consensus triggers dismissal of the arguer rather than the argument — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2389; Displacing blame onto a side issue can be exposed as evasion by analogy — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1252

Broader Connections

• Challenging consensus triggers dismissal of the arguer rather than the argument #corroborates (0.95) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2389
• Displacing blame onto a side issue can be exposed as evasion by analogy #exemplifies (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1252