[lbo-talk] Stop Labeling and Start Organizing!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri May 6 12:52:13 PDT 2005


Chip Berlet wrote:


>Why would an organizer start out by offending half their potential
>audience with language that is abrasive?

Would it have been ok to call racist Southern whites in the Jim Crow era racist thugs? If someone holds an offensive, reactionary, or ludicrous set of beliefs, can't we call them offensive, reactionary, or ludicrous? A lot of them sure aren't very considerate of us.

Doug



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