On Selective Pacifism & other Oddities

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Nov 29 06:48:29 PST 2001


Max Sawicky wrote:


>CCox:
>I come back to my initial judgment: the phrase "selective pacifist" is
>is seriously bad writing -- and one can't take seriously any discourse
>which seriously uses the term. (How's that for using a word three times
>in one sentence with a different sense every time.) Carrol
>
>mbs: I have to say, in all honesty, I really, really don't understand
>your argument. The sense of it completely escapes me.

It annoys Carrol, therefore it's sloppy thinking and bad writing.

Doug



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