> Brian Siano:
>
> > And really-- what is so bad about Red-baiting? They're so _easy_ to
bait,
> > and when they worked up, it's actually really funny.
>
> This is true. My God, what fucking wimps. And I love Yoshie's "Men!"
bit.
> Priceless. I suppose I could charge her with sex baiting (what the fuck
does
> my gender have to do with my critique?), but then she'd doubtless
counter
> with the fact that I'm white and straight, and she's Japanese, and so
on.
> You know where this leads. I saw it all the time when I was at FAIR, and
> among the groups we dealt with. It's the cry of those with no argument,
or
> at least the means or ability to press it in the face of criticism.
>
> For the record, I've never, ever, emailed Doug offlist to ask that an
> exchange I don't like be taken offlist. Gotta problem with it? Email the
> person or persons directly. Don't run to teacher to tattle.
>
> DP
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These look like sensible, non-coercive rules to me, Dennis. So why don't you take your adolescent imitation of Clint Eastwood's pathological machismo, ugly Americanism and head to Dick Cheney's house where you'll have more fun getting your adrenaline addled cortex off...............
Yours in misandry for a day :-),
Ian