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sui.generis at myrealbox.com sui.generis at myrealbox.com
Wed Mar 20 23:39:07 PST 2002


At 01:35 AM 3/21/02 -0500, Matt Cramer wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 sui.generis at myrealbox.com wrote:
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>[...]
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> > For those who think I was angry, please show me where I was so all-fired
> > angry until doug insulted me and Matt insulted Joe's intelligence. Forgive
> > my irrational response to matt: he redbaits at other lists and I have no
> > tolerance for someone who does such a thing.
>
>Oh bite me. I wasn't "redbaiting" Joe for goodness sake.

good thing. It's kind of hard to red bait people on a left list where they won't be ashamed to be associated with reds!

Redbaiting is when you criticize people's support for the administration's war in Afghanistan by reminding them that our Middle East policy is about supporting that Socialist state, Israel. Notice that discussions here do not revolve around that concern! And yet, you find it perfectly appropriate to bring that up elsewhere in an attempt to make your interlocutors appear as if they're inadvertently supporting the commies! gasp! horror! I found it especially luscious that you jumped into a thread that was initiated by people who do not wish to be exposed as reds in their communities or at their jobs. People want to protect their privacy so that they can espouse the politics they wish to espouse, and speak the thoughts they think, without recrimination. We cannot do that in a world where people continue to try to turn being a "red" into something to be ashamed of and ridiculed for.

kelley



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