> >I suggest everyone simply ignore
> >him. (Remember, his was the case I suggested could stand as a metaphor
> >for a potential practical problem in a party not exercising the power to
> >expel members.)
> >
> >Carrol
>
> I think he should be expelled. Doug has no problems with right-wing thought
> as long as it is intelligently expressed. Withrow clearly does not get to
> first base.
>
> Louis Proyect
Good lord! If you can't larn Withrow a thing or two you guys may as well throw in the towel. Sure he's said some things that sound like ditto-head programming to me, but that's not ALL he's said. You act as if there's no difference between him & Roger Ailes. Gimme a break!
As for Withrow's statements about the availablity of food, this is by no means such a straightfoward evidence of rightwing propaganda.
I just finished reviewing "Sweet Charity: Emergency Food and the End of Welfare" by Janet Poppendieck for the Christian Science Monitor. Poppendieck is highly critical of the way that emergency food aid enables the continued destruction of rights and entitlement programs--as are many in the emergency food system as well--but she sees this function as considerably more complicated than mere rightwing propaganda, and I agree with her completely.
Engaging in more of a dialog here with Withrow might give you some insight into more subtle forces at work than blatant propaganda, and this in turn could make you more effective politically.
-- Paul Rosenberg Reason and Democracy rad at gte.net
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