A Henry Miller Moment [and, sort of, blogging]

[Dennis Perrin]

> I think it worthwhile to distinguish between _ad hominem_ attacks and
> merely personal attacks, and I think DP's post is an instance of the
> latter. In my understanding, an _ad hominem_ attack tries to discredit a
> _position_ by discrediting the source of that position. P says "X is
> true"; P's opponent says, "P is a vile creature, therefore X is false."
> But DP never attacks any positions in his attacks on Yoshie, me (and I
> presume other critics of U.S. imperialism), he merely attacks us for
> holding positions which are (from his perspective) false by definition.
> So he's not guilty of ad hominem attacks. Gordon probably has it right.
>
> Carrol

Dance all you like, Carrol. Fact remains, you support ethnic cleansing under
the cover of "anti-imperialism."

DP