[lbo-talk] The STFU left

Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at gmail.com
Fri May 20 21:24:19 PDT 2005


---- Original Message ---- From: snitsnat To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org ; lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 8:45 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] The STFU left


> yeah, y'all should get over it. the beauty of this list is the
> beautiful people on it -- in all their variety.
>
> pug was upset because Doug called him a State Dept. Socialist. I
> don't even know what that means, but I don't blame him for being
> upset. He's also upset because he feels that people are shutting down
> internal criticism of the left, in the name of sticking together.
> While some folks have claimed that righties stick together through
> thick and thin, IME, they do not. Not righties on _our_ level. They
> disagree, bicker, attack each other etc. to the same degree that
> lefties do -- even in forums where there are outsiders to observe
> them doing so. If you're talking the movers and shakers among the
> rightwing, well I guess I'd disagree too. And, even if they did
> present a united front and never ate each other for lunch, comparing
> this group -- and e-mail list--to the movers and shakers is a little
> odd.
>
> I'm glad that others piped up to say that wanted Michael back.
>
>
> kelley
>
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I suspect Mike is just reloading...

Personally, I've been accused of gaybashing(Brian Dauth, Queer Buddist Resister), marginal life style (D Henwood) (thank you for the compliment, darlin'), Moralist and anti-sex(!) (I forget whom, but thanks for the laugh anyway) and perhaps other slurs that I've been too slow-witted or uninterested to catch...

All in a days work critiquing the "circular firing squad" that is, and in my lifetime as a whole, has always defined... "left". [snicker]

Leigh



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