I just received my 8th email of the day from one of my favorite org’s . . . ok, not really, it just seemed like the 8th email and it really isn’t one of my favorite organizations. The organization? PFAW (which stands for “People For The American Way”) or, as they’re wont to call it now, simply “People For.”
I’m curious as to why they changed their handle. I’ve never like the name, thinking that it was verbose and ambiguous (which is ironic, given that it is wordy). But I suspect there’s a reason other than the wordiness that prompted the change.
It dawned on me this evening that it is probably because–since the period following 9/11, Lefties have been a little sensitive to accusations of being “un-American” or claims that any war is worth fighting to preserve the so-called “American way.”
As with the film producers who jettisoned “the American way” phrase from the most recent Superman movie, what’s worth defending about the American way? And we don’t have any business being all exclusive or arrogant . . . you know?
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