Principled Discoursin' (was Re: [lbo-talk] BDL on Sweezy)

T Fast tfast at yorku.ca
Mon Mar 1 09:27:16 PST 2004



>
> >This reminds me of the Bully on the playground that gets to smack up the
> >defenceless off camera.
>
> No, because you could simply level Brad's claims on the basis of his lack
> of substantive criticism and point out the ad hominem (he does it enough,
> e.g., recent crits of Ehrenreich's Nickle and Dimed where implied he
wasn't
> free to criticize until recently when his sister's tenure promotion was
> safe, since Ehrenreich's daughter was on the committee. Which, of course,
> was untrue. De Long had already posted his crits of Ehrenreich on his
blog)
>
> Hurling more ad hominem against Brad does as much for the critic's claims
> as it does for Brad's: squat.

Yah, yah...more rational discourse is the road to salvation. A point I am wedded to, if not always convinced of. Of course given Brad's was such a reactionary post it perhaps would have been better to just meet it with the deafening silence it deserved.

Travis



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