Doug Henwood wrote:
> Yes, I want a democratic forum. My complaint was that lots of
> listmembers don't seem to agree
well Doug, "lots of listmembers"?? Aren't you making a whole lot of just a few guys out of control? Most of posts I read are acceptable, i.e. no cheap epithets on them.
jj
Btw, was it in this list that I read that Chomky's arguments lack rigorous theoretical background? that he cannot be taken seriously? Has anyone more illustrated than myself on the subject elaborate a bit, if interested?
thanks
> - they don't want to hear from people
> whose interests, beliefs, or temperaments are significantly different
> from theirs. And they have the epithets to prove it.
>
> Doug
>
> Juan Jose Barrios wrote:
>
> >it is precisely on crisis times when you must become more tolerant. Views
> >are usually expressed under too much anxiety. Just let it go. Dont you
> >wanted a democratic forum??
> >
> >Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> >> lweiger at umich.edu wrote:
> >>
> >> >Doug, would you please welcome him back? I'd hate to think that my
> >> >most lasting contribution to this list was hastening (with Justin's
> >> >help) the exit of such an open and unblinded mind.
> >>
> >> He didn't leave, though he seems to be contemplating it.
> >>
> >> I've been especially distressed - meaning I usually am, but it's been
> >> worse lately - by the insularity of a lot of listmembers. They're not
> >> interested in, or quite hostile to, people they deem too sectarian,
> >> or too liberal, or too "academic," or too whatever. The major reason
> >> I started this list was to offer a forum where people on the broadly
> >> defined "left," whatever that is, could talk across disciplinary,
> >> political, and temperamental boundaries. Sometimes it works, but in
> >> times of crisis, like this, the fault lines really become apparent.
> >> In my gloomier moments I think maybe I should just pull the plug on
> >> the whole thing because it's all so fucking doomed and just
> >> reposition myself as a writer of starlet profiles.
> >>
> >> Doug