Twinkling

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sat Feb 9 19:25:12 PST 2002


Chuck0 says:


>Nathan Newman wrote:
>
>> This paragraph sums up all that is wrong with consensus decisionmaking-- the
>> idea that "wanting to go home" is a bad value and should be stopped in favor
>> of endless meetings. Those who are willing to block and hold things up and
>> get their way through wearing down those who have lives and want to get on
>> with the work they came together to do. So let me amend my earlier
>> statement-- consensus politics is both oppressive to minority and majority
>> opinions and only empowering to those willing to abuse the patience of
>> others and take advantage of the privileges that allow them to outlast
>> others at meetings.
>
>Well, since we are getting down to basic differences between us, I'm not
>surprised that a liberal would continue to misrepresent what amounts to
>be an anarchist process.

Aren't consensus, twinkling, etc. part of a subculture of white American youths on the Left, rather than "an anarchist process"? I doubt that anarchists twinkled during the Spanish Civil War. -- Yoshie

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