Michael Lerner bashing (was:Re: against 'entrenched identities')

[Max Sawicky]

> . . . 
> I think they are fundamentally unprogressive because I think they are
> fundamentally completely self-involved and happy in their comfortable
> little bourgeois berkeley ("Honey, did you send the check to the
> Tibetans?") way, and any serious commitment to progressive/radical
> politics would challenge that.

Francis and Carrol,

I've never met Lerner and don't know anything
about him but what I read (past tense) in the
papers.  My reference was to the Tikkun folks
as a group, a couple of whom I know, as harmless
at worst and normal radicals at best.

The passivity and bourgeoisification described
in this post could be applied with equal justice
to many varieties of academic or middle class
radical.  I think we're being a tad ornery here.
You did admit the desire to rant.  Why not have
an ice cream sundae?

Cheers,

MBS