Among the offlist communications I got were:
>So you claim that you expelled me for my tone and style, not for the
>reason that you do not appear to yourself as you appear to me--a
>defacto right winger, insensitive to homophobia and racism, for
>having cast a symbolic vote for Nader (when Bush had to be pushed
>back before all else--you try to raise your gay or colored kid in
>the next 8 years in this country) and an ugly American labor
>aristocrat social imperialist (for having uncritically supported
>Sweeney's unilateral calls for social protectionism). What you
>cannot handle is not my style and tone but the fact that you appear
>so different to me than you think of yourself. The reason you give
>here for expelling me is purely delusional; it was an act meant to
>protect your self image from the destabilization of an other's point
>of view. So now you have silenced, censored, expelled. The
>*violence* is in your act, not in my sharp and obnoxious style.
>Please be aware that Jan Carowan would have mercilessly criticized UNITE
>which seems to have retained the journalistic mercenaries Henwood and/or
>Featherstone for their protectionist anti sweatshop campaign which has has
>already cost Cambodia a quota increase and destroyed tens of thousands of
>lives of poor Cambodian women. Their benefactor UNITE has also ensured that
>African Free Trade Act puts all the sacrifices on some of the poorest
>people on earth since Africa has been forced to liberalize while
>required to use
>American fibres in exporting to the American market. This has saved several
>hundred American jobs at the expense of the poorest people on the earth.
>Please forward this to LBO; the stakes are high.
>All you are both saying is that the Cambodians and Africans who have
>been victimized by UNITE's protectionist policies are not welcome in
>your living rooms. Henwood and Featherstone don't even mention these
>impacts. You are all just apartheid fucks--and I mean that
>sincerely. It's obvious that not one of you has a clue how you
>appear to many of the world's peoples. Politics is not a matter of
>living rooms; it's a matter of open contestation in an environment
>which is decidedly not cozy.
So "Carowan" has now gotten his posts forwarded, and his critiques heard.
Doug