Sectarianism...

[joanna bujes]

At 04:03 PM 10/09/2001 -0400, Doug wrote:
>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.

Awww Doug. Don't do it. There may come a day when the People Liberation 
Front of Judea and the Judean People's Liberation Front will work as one!!!

Joanna B.