Lerner: condemn Palestinian terror

[Peter K.]

>Michael Pollak wrote:
>>
>>   I just think he mumbled it the
>> way he did because he's a bad writer rather than because of how he thinks.
>> For all his faults, this theme of genuine friendship and solidarity among
>> peoples has always been Lerner's main bag, he's downright goopy with it.
>
>In an issue of what is now called SR or Socialist Review but at a time
>when it was still called Socialist Revolution there was a longish
>article which featured how Lerner operated in some big anti-war
>demonstration in some west coast city. I'll try to dig the issue out of
>my basement. I can't remember any of the details, but the general thrust
>of it was that he was an archetypal male chauvinist pig and utterly
>detestable in his personal relations to other leftists, especially
>women. And a woman who used to post to this list told of his delivering
>a diatribe at some party in San Francisco on the weakness of the left
>being that leftists wouldn't obey their leaders.
>
>Carrol

So should we ignore him too, Dr. Phil? Lerner's Politics of Meaning
were indeed goopy. Hillary Clinon bought into it at one point.

Peter