[lbo-talk] Re: boycotting the unorganized (miidle class)

[ravi]

Bill Bartlett wrote:
> At 2:28 PM -0500 25/1/05, ravi wrote:
>> > I think some of these vegetarians have been watching
>>
>>> too many Walt Disney cartoons. Sheep aren't people folks, sorry to
>>> break it to you. Neither are cabbages. Although some people put up a
>>> damn good imitation. Not enough meat in their diet to fuel their
>>> brains, I reckon. ;-)
>>
>>ah, ridicule. and this is the sort of person i am supposed to feel
>>solidarity with?
> 
> You've already made it clear that you have no intention of extending 
> solidarity to anyone who won't adopt your vegetarian philosophy. So 
> you are a lost cause anyhow, I might as well make an example of you. 
> So go ahead and restrict your solidarity to dumb animals. They won't 
> answer back or make fun of you, I'm sure you will find that 
> satisfying.
> 

eh, wot? quotes please! where did i "make it clear that i have no
intention of extending solidarity to anyone who won't adopy my
vegetarian philosophy"?!!! i explicitly said quite the opposite in my
early posts:

a) i have never (and will probably never) cross a picket line.

b) the onus is upon me to convince others to participate in the animal

   rights movement i.e., i cannot expect unreasoned axiomatic solidarity

   from other parts of the left, for my cause.

those of you, who may believe that the framework/theory you believe in
(marxism?) is a science, seem to have little patience for other left
groups. at best, this attitude is a dangerous elitism.

	--ravi