On Nov 17, 2006, at 12:00 PM, bitch wrote:
> I doubt very many folks remember the incident but R noticed
> something I hadn't, buried as I've been in other things. Sandy
> Harris posted [1] a review of the LBO list from someone's brief
> stay here. His handle was Szechuan Death [2] and he writes of the
> list:
>
[...]
>
> http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/death/death1.html
I love this bit:
> I selected the "lightest" one--lbo-talk, a general-purpose leftist
> discussion forum--and lurked a bit, then jumped into a thread.
> Now, I will admit, I was an ass, and quite intentionally too. I
> started out with a broadside in a debate involving the concept of
> adult pornography as exploitation of women in se (the idea is
> purest guano straight from the boil-encrusted asscheeks of Marx and
> his disciples, of course), inquiring about the possibility that the
> participants are actually capable of contracting their services in
> exchange for money and asking pointed questions about some other
> cherished Leftist shibboleths. I believe the wheels started to
> come off when I suggested for comparative consideration another
> "solution" to the "problem" of adult pornography, the practice
> among ultra-orthodox Jews, Christians, and Muslims of stoning the
> unchaste. (A very popular, "democratically-decided", and still-
> practiced solution to the "problem" of sexual immorality in
> general, but one which is of course anathema to this crowd. Hmm, I
> guess that that "diversity" isn't celebrated.) All this, of
> course, was perpetrated with heaping helpings of my typically
> acerbic and uncharitable style. My insightful and penetrating
> insights were not received well, to put it mildly. And lo! the
> very next day, the Commissar hauled me down to the tiled cellar and
> put the virtual bullet in the back of my head. Oh well. C'est la
> vie.
He overlooks one member of the list who manages to come up with apologias for stoning - who, despite that, is not going to be taken down to the tiled cellar. That aside, statists and nonstatists are welcome here. Assholes like this aren't.
Doug