Not to worry. He means "vile" in a purely nonmoral sense. It is descriptive, like "having blue eyes" or "being 6 feet tall." So, there is no need to take offense.
--- On Wed, 6/17/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 11:28 AM
>
> On Jun 17, 2009, at 8:29 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> > Dennis Claxton wrote:
> >>
> >>> Wasn't Ahmadinejad Yoshie's Persian Prince?
> >>
> >
> > The phrase was an allusion to Gramsci's Modern Prince,
> though in the
> > single nastiest pose ever submitted to lbo-talk Doug
> sneered that were
> > she male he would think she was writing from between
> her legs or
> > somekthing like that. That vile post was the beginning
> of making lbo
> > intolerable for Yoshie.
>
> Oh please. She also found PEN-L and Marxmail intolerable,
> and you can't blame me for that. Her prosyletizing wasn't
> successful, and she stormed off like a kid.
>
> Doug
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