Discovery Institute Accuses Rioters of Rights Violations

[Ampersand B. Deutsch]

You're right, NOW and PP shouldn't be equated with feminism; but
neither should NOW be equated with Gore.  NOW's policies aren't as
progressive as those of people on this list, but are significantly to
the left of anything the "presidential wing" of the democrats have
favored lately.  Frankly, if Gore had the positions on affirmative
action, lesbian/gay rights, pay equity, welfare and social security
that NOW does, I'd be supporting him instead of Nader.

I'm not a big defender of NOW (they strike me as fairly ineffective
nowadays); but I do think they gets a unfair rap for being equivilent
to the "New Democrat" colition when they're not (although perhaps that
wasn't what you meant with your Gore metaphor).  And the "legalistic
form of feminism" has done as much or more for women in the US as any
other form.

--BD

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: Discovery Institute Accuses Rioters of Rights Violations


: B. Deutsch wrote:
:
: >It's nice to know that when the chips are down, some folks on the
left
: >will still find the time to attack feminism.
: >
: >I agree that the RICO decision was a bad decision (and for that
matter
: >the entire RICO law is a bad law), and the position NOW and PP took
: >was short-sighted at best.
:
: I don't know the legal story here, but I'd have to object to
equating
: NOW with feminism; it's like calling Al Gore "the left." NOW
: represents a rather timid, bourgeois, legalistic form of feminism.
: There are many other kinds.
:
: Doug: