[lbo-talk] Tell them we are democrats (was: freedom to swim)

ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Sun Jun 28 09:51:41 PDT 2009


On Jun 28, 2009, at 12:40 PM, ravi wrote:
>
> Fine as far as that goes, but it is not an act of exoticising for
> someone to say that perhaps your "ideas of justice", even if its
> shared by a "lot" of Iranians, may neither be universal nor shared
> by the majority. <snip happens>

A point of clarification: these days people find quotation marks scary. My intention above is not to invoke fear, but to denote that I am repeating terms as written by the person I am responding to. Usage of the quotes does not mean sarcasm or some other technique, either. IOW, I take those terms as they are: by adding quotes around "ideas of justice" I do not wish to convey that those ideas (of Doug's) are either scary or illegitimate or the opposite of what they claim to be (etc). |||ly for "lot". As the rest of my post and my laments about question-begging implies, it is exactly these ideas that I want to discuss.

--ravi



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