replying to Dennis was Re: left conservatism

[Gary MacLennan]

At 05:51 PM 6/19/98 -0700, you wrote:
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>Gary:
>
>You comment on things said at a conference and transcribed from a tape
>recording and conclude:
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>>But her (Brown's) remarks on truth are
>>simplistic in the extrme.
>
>
>Unlike your own comment here on homophobia?
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>>the reality of homophobia conists in
>>the underlying relationality within which gay people are both constructed
>>and trapped.
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>
>Brown and Butler are usually dodging charges of producing writing that is
>too complex.  Maybe they would be pleased to hear you find one of them too
>simple.
>
>
>

Now Dennis,

Simplistic does not equal 'too simple' in my lexicon, at any rate.  To be
frank here my complaint about a lot of post modernism is that it is just
Nietzschean balderdash dressed up in complex language.

Let me try and put this in another way.  Simple Good.  Simplistic Bad.  Got
it?

I am  at a loss to understand your reference to my remarks on the
'materiality of homosexuality'.  If you care to enlarge I will reply.

regards

Gary