[lbo-talk] "Islamofascism Awareness Week" (was Marjane Satrapi: Revolutionary Spirit)

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Tue Oct 23 08:38:39 PDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 11:17 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Saying Andie, someone I know fairly well in the real world, and not
> just as a dotcomrade (a word I just learned today, thanks to the
> Urban Dictionary's word of the day), is just like Phyllis Chesler and
> Little Green Footballs - repulsive entities, both of them - is a
> slur, and a desperate one at that. She's said similar things to me
> many times.

But at the risk of repeating myself, I don't think she did say that. She said what he wrote on a particular occasion wouldn't have been out of place on FR or LGF. That seems perfectly parliamentary to me, whether one agrees with it or not.


> So if she apologizes to Andie and witdraws the slur, then she can
> continue to post her three a day.

You the commissar, comrade. But once more: I don't see the "slur."



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