[lbo-talk] Iran's Youth Movements

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 26 09:15:46 PDT 2007


"self-loathing? Where did that come from?

I always read Yoshie's stuff.

--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:


> Ravi:
>
>
> Count me in the group with the time, patience and
> interest to read
> Yoshie's posts. After all, they are some of the most
> content-rich and
> invective free, and anything but one-way: I just did
> a count of my
>
> [WS:] I concur, except perhaps the one way part.
> Yoshie seems to be very
> stubborn insisting on her own point of view and
> reluctant to give any ground
> to her intellectuals opponents. In that respect she
> reminds me of my ex #2
> who had good politics, but she would dig in her
> heels to the point of being
> ridiculous even to the people who were generally on
> her side. And of course
> her self-loathing and prostrating herself before the
> "global South"
> undermines her credibility quite substantially and
> looks pretty much
> infantile - this is what adolescents do to piss off
> their parents and
> teachers.
>
> But other than that - I find the stuff that she
> posts quite informative,
> albeit a bit too long. My only suggestion would be
> to summarize the main
> points and their relevance to the argument at hand
> and only making
> references to originals - instead of re-posting
> originals verbatim. This,
> imho, would not only make her arguments far more
> effective, but also be more
> tolerable to those with low tolerance for
> propagandistic diatribes.
>
> Wojtek
>
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