When Jargon Goes After Ann Coulter

When Jargon Goes After Ann Coulter

I confess that there are aspects to Ann Coulter that bother me. She is funny--in an acidic, sometimes cruel kind of way. I've discussed my concerns about her style in detail before.

I was amused, however, the see this paper in an academic journal called Borderlands that reads like a parody of self-important, jargon-ridden academics:

Ann Coulter and the Problem of Pluralism: From Values to Politics

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Of course, one can certainly envisage particular ways in which political theory might directly address Coulterism. Thought from within the frame of deliberative democratic theory, Coulterism is undoubtedly an instance of illegitimate coercive communication shaped by the instrumental concerns of faction or personal profit rather than the universal interest in mutual understanding (Habermas 1979; Habermas 1990). It is also easily definable as a major vehicle of false consciousness and part of what Chomsky and Hermann (1979) have described as the media-military-industrial-complex ‘propaganda machine’.

"[I]llegitimate coercive communication"? I suspect that this means something in Chomskyite jargonbabble, but in ordinary English, it would seem to imply that after the Revolution, Coulter won't be allowed to speak. After all, she is engaged in "coercive communication"--her words force you to do things!