Nothing like a good chastisement to validate all one's assumptions about grim left authoritarianism.
xoxo Liza
> From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 13:29:50 -0500
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: sorry
>
>
>
> Liza Featherstone wrote:
>>
>> Who wants to feel bad about shopping, sexually objectifying
>> others, making jokes, or eating tasty food?
>>
>
> I have several times argued, in response to some poster whose name I
> always forget, that these attitudes are not left at all. They aren't
> even pc, if one defines pc as simple politeness (as I do). They are
> simply vicious.
>
> There will always be, as Engels pointed out in _Anti-Duhring_, a large
> fluttering about the left of various [fill in your own list]. Repeat,
> there will _always_ be. Complaints about this marginalia are simply
> complaints about the weather -- mere whining.
>
> Criticisms of "The Left" (a nonexistent entity in the u.s. currently)
> that focus on these floaters are unprincipled.
>
> Carrol
>