[lbo-talk] Stop Labeling and Start Organizing!

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Charles Brown" <cbrown at michiganlegal.org>
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>Stop Labeling and Start Organizing!
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>by Chip Berlet
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>I think it's time to stop using phrases such as "religious political
>extremist" and "radical religious right." A lot of my friends and allies 
>use
>this language, but what are friends for if they can't tell you when they
>think you are wrong? I also think that we should be asking folks in the
>Christian Right to stop pasting labels on those of us who are liberal or
>progressive. I'm an equal opportunity curmudgeon.
>
>^^^^^^
>
>Charles: It's not very likely that these fascistic-zealot folks are going 
>to
>just do what you politely ask.

Heed (in a metaphorical way of course) the wisdom of Al Capone:  "You can 
get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word 
alone."

Carl