[lbo-talk] LBO's Union Experts, I Call Upon Ye!

[Eubulides]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Charles Brown
<charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote:
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>  Eubulides
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>  This is to collapse the distinction between strategic public policies
>  to avert large scale political competition and conspiracy, in order to
>  rescue the latter term from pejorative uses. Why not just talk/write
>  about public policies and their intended and unintended consequences,
>  lest you slip down the slope to the problems associated with
>  functionalism...............
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>  ^^^
>  CB: If you agree to a ten year moratorium on the terms "conspiracy
>  theory" , deal.
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If you and others misdescribe/misanalyze various episodes and or
patterns in history as conspiracies without clear and substantive
definitions of your terms in a manner that have considerable
explanatory advantages that other terms and narratives don't, folks on
this list are gonna call u on it. So just stop deploying the terms
where they don't apply.