[lbo-talk] RE: black music makes history

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Oct 10 14:15:38 PDT 2003


joanna bujes wrote:


>Doug, your Carrol-bashing is compulsive. Carrol, like everyone one
>else on this list, simply states his opinion. Wrong, right,
>insightful, superficial, whatever. Why do you pick him out in
>particular for being a demagogue. To my ears, his tone and arguments
>do not sound appreciably different from anyone elses on the list.

Demagogue? Not at all - quite the opposite in fact. There are two reasons I respond to him repeatedly - one his often breathtaking nastiness to people who don't deserve it, and two, a representative and all-too-common attitude on the American left (which, of course, doesn't exist) that's absolutely hostile to speaking to an audience beyond the little circle of true believers.

Doug



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