Pleasant dealings with folks on the right
April 3rd, 2009In the last few months I’ve had a number of brief, private exchanges with various conservatives who are regularly pilloried from the left for, variously, intellectual dishonesty, boorishness in the face of contradictory evidence, undue hysteria, and backwards morality. I might’ve even thought those things or cast judgement based on where someone works. Even though I always led with criticism, these have all been really honest, brief conversations. As much or moreso as recent conversations with people on the left, frankly. I’m not optimistic that this will continue once elections ramp up again (although my one run-in with amateur internet detectives wound up alright), but for the moment it’s quite nice.