Radio Doug

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 5:28 PM -0500 3/28/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
>I was stunned at least twice during the interview - the first time 
>when I said that the liberal enlightenment depended in part upon a 
>material base of imperialism; she dismissed that as "mechanistic." 
>And the other time was when I'd said that the U.S. military was a 
>pretty untrustworthy instrument of liberation, because it's one of 
>the most violent and repressive mechanisms ever devised. That, she 
>said, was "hyperbolic." Of course, neither "hyperbolic" nor 
>"mechanistic" are arguments - they're dismissive epithets.

Exactly -- just as saying that I have lots of problems with your 
"absolute certainty" isn't really an argument.
-- 
Yoshie

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