[lbo-talk] Avoiding Bad Taste

[Michael Dawson]

>Living on planet earth just is an epistemology course :-> and you have a
>normative baseline for the discussion which you haven't expressed and, if
>you remain aloof, will bring even more unnecessary scorn from MD [even as
>I don't think such scorn is conducive to sorting events out in the e-lab
>of lbo]. That being written, the attribution of motives is always
>problematic, but given the evidence we have now as compared to what was
>available in 1972-1976 re US-Latin America policy, methinks MD, Chomsky
>and others are largely on target. The explanatory/narrative burden re
>attribution of motives is on you.

Thanks, Eub, and sorry for the scorn, but we're talking about the welfare of
billions of desperate people, which Weiger apparently wants to entrust to
capitalists.

Anyhow, I now see Weiger is just a theocrat.  The world simply WILL bend to
his weird pre-conceived positions, whatever the evidence.  You show him
you're making a claim that's different from what he thinks you're claiming,
and he says "So what, I'm talking about what I'm talking about."  He claims
there's "no evidence" for a theory he doesn't like, and you show him a
powerful piece of evidence.  He refuses to admit it's at least evidence.  I
won't bother with him again.