[lbo-talk] Re: boycotting the unorganized

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Wed Jan 19 22:05:59 PST 2005


I don't think this is a black/white thing and you can jump up and down as much as you like, it won't make it so. You yourself gave some good counter examples...

Joanna

Turbulo at aol.com wrote:


>Would I be breaking any rules if I pointed out the fact (which most people
>understand anyway) that you are a dickhead?
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>This is a serious conversation, Dawson, not a joke. The idea that you can
>decide to just cross a picketline has real-world consequences. Once again, I
>find it irritating that I even have to explain this.
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>Lacny's epithets are justified this time. I wouldn't respect a picket line of workers striking to protest the hiring of black people (and there have been such strikes in American history) or a picket line of police. But any line thrown up in the course of ordinary union-employer struggle should be respected without regard to opinions on the wisdom of union tactics or leadership. Anyone who doesn't know this has no claim to the title of leftist or progressive. Civility shouldn't be extended to strikebreakers.
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