On Selective Pacifism & other Oddities

[Gordon Fitch]

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

Max Sawicky wrote:
> >mbs:  I have to say, in all honesty, I really, really don't understand
> >your argument.  The sense of it completely escapes me.

Doug Henwood:
> It annoys Carrol, therefore it's sloppy thinking and bad writing.

Back in my wayward youth, the term "selective pacifism" was
always delivered with a sneer by someone like William Buckley.
Therefore, it cannot be bad writing if delivered sneerfully,
because otherwise Mr. Buckley would not have used it.  He
went to Yale, you know.

-- Gordon