The problem was precisely the selectivity of what you presented. Now you admit that the Serbs acted like a "baying mob" in 1987 according to your chosen author. I can come up with all kinds of "demonizing" information about the Serbs that has been published by pro-Serb authors. I see no reason to do so in isolation from related "demonizing information" about the Albanians.
Thank you for providing a smidgen of the other side of the story. Barkley Rosser -----Original Message----- From: Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> To: pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu <pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu> Date: Friday, May 21, 1999 2:24 PM Subject: [PEN-L:7112] L. Proyect on Albanian Kosovars
>> What I found and find objectionable is your demonization of
>>the Albanians coinciding with your more or less complete
>>buying into nearly all of the worst of the Serbian nationalist and
>>chauvinist stories and mythologies.
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>You don't get it. Most of the information is drawn from Miranda Vickers'
>book. She is pro-Kosovar. If somebody who can describe the Serbs in Kosovo
>as a "baying mob" during their rally to greet Milosevic in 1987 can come up
>with such damning information about Albanian misogyny, racial exclusivism
>and irredentism, then the problem is not in my "demonization" but in the
>social realities of Kosovo itself. If you can provide information that
>counters Vickers, then be my guest.
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>Louis Proyect
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>(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
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