> Art McGee wrote:
>
>> Punk ass bastard. You don't know who you are fucking with,
>> do you? I will reach through this screen and crush your nuts
>> you piece of shit. This ain't no ivory tower academic you're
>> talking to so watch what the fuck you say.
>
>
> Just what is radical about this rhetorical style?
> And would you use this style if you were organizing an appeal for the
> defense fund you mentioned the other day?
>
sounds as good a strategy as any, to raise money.
well i'll definitely hand over all the money i have, in defense of my life or nuts or whatever is under threat, if this very angry fellow was to ask me!!! ;-) but i guess thats because i am not a middle-class white woman suffering from middle-class white privilege and i know how to not be outraged about such things. ;-)
--ravi
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- man is said to be a rational animal. i do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. more often i have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the 2nd degree. -- alasdair macintyre.