A Positive Program

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Sep 24 10:51:41 PDT 2001


Carrol Cox wrote:


>In other words, having a conviction and trying to persuade others of
>that conviction is impolite. I have long suspected that Kelley belonged
>to that category of freshmen comp students who believed that criticizing
>a belief was a suppression of free speech. This seems to confirm that
>suspicion.

There's a difference between having a conviction and trying to persuade others of that conviction, on one hand, and being patronizing and insulting to people who don't agree with you, on the other.

Doug



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