Lefty despair

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Sep 20 09:12:10 PDT 2002


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>You can say, obviously, that such and such leftists are humorless,
>self-righteous prigs, naming names, without the statement turning
>back upon you; but you can't be a leftist and say that "the left in
>general are a bunch of humorless and self-righteous losers," without
>a reflexivity problem.

When you make jokes that editors of leftish publications delete, or make observations at a meeting that fellow attendees find sacrilegous, you don't feel a "reflexivity problem" so much as a sense of dispirited alienation.

Doug



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