[lbo-talk] On vandalism and violence

[Gar Lipow]

On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 5:14 PM,  <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph Catron" <jncatron at gmail.com>
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> Fuck violence. This is clearly a testasterone laden discussion.
>>
>
> Joanna, that's silly. Nobody here has ever attributed their disagreements
> with you to your estrogen, because that wouldn't be much of an argument at
> all.
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> Well, actually, "hysterical" is a euphemism for "meaningless female acting out."
>
> Joanna

And almost always used either against women or as a way of feminizing
mail opponents.  And again, the reason you are getting a focus on this
issue is that people are defending smashing windows or criticizing
criticizing smashing windows. Of course there will be more focus where
there is a disagreement.  You don't see comparable focus on police
violence because nobody is defending police violence. I've lived with
the same issue in Olympia, and idiot vandals make life harder for
leftist activists and organizers. The police do too, but they don't
claim to be advancing a left agenda.


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