[lbo-talk] Trying To Understand Marta's POV

ravi gadfly at exitleft.org
Fri Mar 25 12:44:54 PST 2005


andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> Marta, I'm a Jewish person, and so keenly aware of the
> useful of the Nazi analogies to justify policies
> abhorrent to the left. I agree with Dwayne, who said
> that dragging in the Nazis is sign that the discussion
> has broken down. It sort of works like electromagnetic
> pulse, blowing out the circuits of all rational
> thought and discussion. There is no way it cannot be
> read as accusing your interlocutors of being complicit
> in genocide. Please avoid it unless you mean to do
> that.
>

don't tell me LBO is the only list that is unaware of godwin's law?

--ravi



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