Labor: Menial vs. Noble

[Carrol Cox]

It wasn't Ian's posts I objected to but the very first
appearance of it, an idiotic post which in effect claimed
that if someone didn't use the term, he [implied he]
wasn't a worker. I'm not interested in anyone with
such a narrow and incredibly stupid conception of
the working class.

Workers who *do* use the term are scabs.

Carrol

Daniel Davies wrote:


> --- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: >
> >
> > When the word first appeared in this
> > thread I added
> > the user to my filter but did fail to object on list
> > as I should have. It
> > is at least as obnoxious as the phrase which led to
> > the unsubbing of
> > one list participant.
>
> Not really fair -- the epithet was mentioned rather
> than used.
>
> dd
>
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