Doug Henwood:
> If you're going to accuse people of slander, then tell them how to
> think and act, while announcing that you haven't read what they've
> said, then you should delete yourself. Why should anyone have expend
> the energy of hitting the <cmd>-D key combo when you refuse the basic
> conventions of civilized discourse? And it's not just your cataract
> surgery problem - you're like this all the time. "Oh I vaguely
> remember an article I read 30 years ago that proved X a sexist pig."
> Sometimes you make me laugh, but right now I'm wondering who the fuck
> you think you are that you can behave like this and expect anyone to
> listen to you?
My impression is that it's rather common on lbo-talk, as well as in other discursive venues of the same general type, to read in a desultory, superficial and fragmentary way and yet nevertheless feel fully qualified to post broad, strong, and sometimes abusive material supposedly in response. I doubt if I have to name names. I don't know why Carrol should be particularly picked out.
-- Gordon