Myth of a Lifestyle Left, was Re: Vegans kill animals too

Chuck Munson chuck at tao.ca
Thu Mar 14 22:08:09 PST 2002


Carrol Cox wrote:


> When, in any definite context (as, for example, LBO discussions) someone
> seriously puts forth a proposition treating individual style choices as
> having political weight (as some months ago some jerk whose name I
> forget was making a big fuss about using Microsoft products) it is
> appropriate to pile up on him or her. But such generic attacks as Kelley
> is launching are as obnoxious as any of the targets of that attack.

The "Left" that Carrol cares about may not exist, but those of us who fall into that broad category are doing fine, thank you.

Broadly speaking, the Left in the U.S. is doing pretty well these days.

Remember Seattle?

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