<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[How The Internet Enforces&nbsp;Rigidity]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>In a sprawling piece on the right-wing backlash against Charles Johnson, Jonathan Dee <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24Footballs-t.html?pagewanted=1&amp;hpw">observes</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Not only can the past never really be erased; it co-exists, in cyberspace, with the present, and an important type of context is destroyed. This is one reason that intellectual inflexibility has become such a hallmark of modern political discourse, and why, so often, no distinction is recognized between hypocrisy and changing your mind.</p> </blockquote> <p>Ackerman <a href="http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2010/01/24/the-past-is-just-the-next-neighborhood-over/">adds</a>:</p>]]></html></oembed>