[lbo-talk] Anybody But Nader

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Aug 25 14:01:04 PDT 2004


Carrol Cox wrote:


>Tsk tsk. Join the rest of us "irony-challenged" people who infest the
>left.

Dear Lance has made homophobic remarks in the past, so I didn't take that to be ironic.

An excerpt from his debut posting:

At 8:19 AM +0000 11/1/01, Lance Murdoch wrote:


>The only labor/union threads that seem to get picked up on here are
>ones bashing labor and unions, including Mr. Henwood's complaining
>about that the AFL-CIO wasn't embracing the spotted owl. The
>another one upset that the UMW didn't give knee-jerk, reflexive
>support to a Democrat because his support of gay rights and gun
>control was felt to be too radical for that region of the country.

[...]


>LBO-talk is billed as a list where labor and unions among other
>things is discussed. All I've seen is a lot of bashing of labor
>unions by people in shock that they aren't reflexively supporting
>your liberal social agendas. Why not just complain that they're not
>accepting some way-out social libertarianism - a call for them to
>support atheism, free love, legalization of all drugs, blah blah
>blah. Labor unions are democratic organizations primarily concerned
>on economic matters. It seems to me that labor unions have more of
>a friend in Pat Buchanan, who bashes the WTO, GATT, and the Fortune
>500's control of immigration policy.



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