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> On Behalf Of Yoshie Furuhashi
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 12:02 PM
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> Subject: [lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill
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> Michael Dawson MDawson at pdx.edu, Fri Feb 18 10:33:45 PST 2005:
> >The definition of a witch-hunt is an attack on the innocent.
> Yoshie:
> In original witch-hunts in history, there were no witches in the
> sense that there wasn't a single person in possession of satanic
> powers that witch hunters attributed to witches.
>
> In contrast, in modern witch-hunts, for instance one hunting down
> members of the Communist Party, some of the targets of attacks were
> indeed "innocent" in the sense that they were not and had never been
> members of the Communist Party nor were they Communists in any other
> sense, but the majority of targets were indeed Communists in belief
> or membership or both, who were not "innocent" in the eyes of the
I almost wrote in and said, in reply to snit, that Yoshie isn't embarrassing, she's didactic and Thomist/always correct. I didn't, but, lo and behold, you write this two hours later. Have you ever been wrong? I don't count CP members as "guilty." I count those who endorse terrorism. I'm talking about objective, in-itself innocence, not "innocence" from the perspective of the witch-hunters.