> CB: Don't tell me your position is not that ANSWER is a front for WWP
Everybody knows that ANSWER is a front group for the WWP. That's old news.
> CB: My comment is very coherent and understandable. That's just another
> phony comment from you in an effort to avoid criticism and
> accountability. You are the one ranting all over the list on this.
> That's what is clear to most people.
I didn't find it very coherent at all. I don't know who you are, but this sudden attack on me on this list is quite curious. By the way, I'm hardly alone on this list in ranting about the WWP and ANSWER. The dislike of ANSWER and the WWP not only permeates this list, but through all flavors of activist circles. You'd be surprised at how much dislike of ANSWER is brewing out there.
> "Redbaiting" is an intra-movement counter-criticism of you that you are
> trying to avoid accountability on.
It's a bullshit charge against me that is designed to stifle any criticism within the movement of sectarian groups like the WWP who have engaged in disruption of other activist groups and who practice sectarianism and parasitism. The chief reason why I am so outspoken against ANSWER and the WWP is because I've seen too many cases over the years where the American left engaged in tactics to shut up intra-movement critics.
The charge of red-baiting is spurious. I have no problem with the presence of communists, socialists, and radicals in the peace and anti-war movements. The charge of red-baiting is more apropro of those liberal writers from the Nation who insinuate that *all* radicals in the movements should be marginalized. My beef is with ONE communist group, not all of them.
People with the movements should have the right to criticize specific organizations without some bullshit suggestion that they are engaged in red-baiting.
> CB: Your whole "WWP equals North Korea" is classic redbaiting and
> divisive of the organizing. The WWP's positions on North Korea are not
> pertinent to this anti-war effort.
Of course their position is germane. As self-appointed leaders of the US peace movement (sic), their position on North Korea is embarassing because North Korea is now part of the war equation.
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