People who spread rumors ARE silly children.
What does this make the people who discuss silly rumors?
I have now gotten over fifty of these stupid Cheney rumors sent to me on lists and by individual e-mail. Discussing it as a sociological concept is one thing, but on LBO?
Off to Christian Coalition meeting where I will listen to and discuss silly rumors.
:-)
-Chip
----- Original Message ----- From: kelley <kwalker2 at gte.net> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>; <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 11:46 PM Subject: Re: Spreading rumors
> At 10:03 PM 9/27/00 -0500, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>
> >Chip Berlet wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Speading internet rumors in an election year should be grounds for
> > > suspension from any sentient e-mail list for 2 weeks.
> >
> >Since I had nothing to do with spreading any rumor I can defend those
> >who did. Chip's point holds only if you take elections seriously. I don't
> >see how that is possible until the Democrat party is destroyed, making
> >room for a second party. No third party will ever be formed, until
> >one of the "two" parties dissolves, leaving a vacuum. And on the
> >whole it would be better if it were the Democrat party that dissolved.
> >
> >Carrol
>
>
> oh criminy, there wasn't any rumor spreading. doug asked originally if
> anyone had heard the rumor. no one seemed especially interested, as far
as
> i could see. and aside from that, that there is such a rumor spreading
is,
> in and of itself, interesting since rumors don't fly for no reason.
rumors
> are indicators of something else and we could, possibly, engage in some
> interesting speculations in that regard--much as, i suppose, pugliese and
i
> find paleoconservatives rumor mills regarding the New World Order
> fascinating for what they say about people's desire to explain what we
> otherwise refer to as capitalist domination, etc.
>
> you do good work chip. but castigating us all as if we are a bunch of
> silly children is over the top.
>
> kelley
>
>