Wojtek
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Let me get this right. you slam a number of us for holding positions we
> absolutely don't hold about fascism - in the context of a discussion that
> has moved from fascism to efficiency - and then, wrongly, assume "we, the
> Commissars" agreed upon a single definition that we oh-so want to enforce
> as
> the one-true definition (something that has never happened in the few years
> I've been on this list - despite polemical stances being regularly taken)
> and that you could reasonably claim to feel hurt, as if we'd want to
> discipline/re-educate you and any other deviant because of our desire to
> make everyone hold correct thoughts... all the while refusing to do the
> efficient - or should I just say intellectually honest and collegial -
> thing
> and search the archives for a series of posts on fascism during 2010.
> Instead, expressing your moral superiority by means of unacknowledged
> incapacity you prefer to ask me to take the time summarize the _various_
> positions taken on the issue by a range of participants?
>
> This is on you, not me... I actually remember things I've seen on this
> list,
> try to explore the earlier iterations/expression as a means of refreshing
> my
> memory of where we've been if an issue comes up again and I want to post,
> and/or, after failing to remember something I admit to failing to do so
> when
> it is pointed out. Most of all, the last thing I'd ever do is assume that
> there's a party line here - have you paid any attention to the diversity of
> thought on just about every issue discussed... or is self-righteous
> victimhood your preferred mode of polemic? When you were an academic,
> how'd
> you feel about people who reinvented a spoke on the wheel because they
> couldn't or wouldn't do a decent literature review but nevertheless claimed
> to be making original and insightful contributions? I know how I felt
> about
> such basic intellectual incompetence.
>
> For your edification, I was wrong, it was last Feb and the subject line
> was: Fascism, right-wing populism, and contemporary research
> Finding this took about 10 seconds in the archives... all I did was search
> fascism rudy
> I'm sure you'll find plenty to disagree with but anything but a party line.
>
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > [WS:] Sorry for not knowing what Commissars of Politically Correct
> > Definitions decided six months ago. I hope I will not be sent to a
> > reeducation camp for that. Meanwhile, would you mind filling me in what
> > point exactly I missed? Or is too much to ask?
> >
> > Wojtek
> >
> >
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