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

[Michael Smith]

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."