![]() ![]() He plays a zero-sum game, begging the questions about definitions and presents those who disagree with him as morally clueless, or worse. This kind of paragraph is very typical of Walsh. We are living in a country inhabited by millions of people who think it immoral to swat a child’s butt for misbehaving, but moral to murder a child for existing.Īnti-spanking. Meanwhile, they also believe that, in the name of women’s rights, a parent may pay to have their child dismembered, decapitated, or poisoned. Often, a liberal will claim that parents should not spank - or even that they should be legally prohibited - because it equates to violence against a child. Let’s look at this dichotomy for a moment. It’s too blatant to ignore:Īnti-spanking is predominately a liberal position. But towards the end of his post, Walsh trips over himself: He offers some legitimate logical difficulties that those who say otherwise have to overcome in order to consistently maintain their position. Walsh, leading with the recent stories surrounding NFL running back Adrian Peterson’s charge of child abuse, argues that spanking is not inherently abusive. His latest entry makes for a good paradigm. Walsh’s blog posts read like the transcript from a conservative talk radio show, demonstrating lack of both careful nuance and literary depth (Walsh doesn’t have a college degree) and instead furnishing quick emissions of right-leaning frustration at left-leaning society. His aggressive, often zero-sum analysis is the ideal kind of writing for the medium. In the last few months alone, Walsh has written highly trafficked posts on Robin Williams and suicide, Michael Brown and Ferguson, spanking, Jennifer Lawrence, and why it’s not his problem if you’re offended. Most of his posts are about contemporary cultural conversations and current events, but it’s not quite clear to me where Walsh defines his beat. Walsh’s blog offers a running commentary on…well, I’m not sure exactly.
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