Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:28:35 +0200 From: Thomas Gramstad <thomas-AT-ifi.uio.no> Subject: Re: Invitation to Aynarchism >> A lot of things can be wrong with a flame fest: it can >> intimidate people, scare people away, waste a lot of time; >> flaming can be a fucking patriarchal power trip, that's what's >> wrong with it. > A flame fest is what you make of it. Yes, but must one always make (something out of) a flame fest in the first place? Why is allowing a flame fest to drown out other voices anarchistic and freedom-loving, while creating a space for those other voices is not and cannot be? > By banning something out of a patronizing sense of PC you do not > create the basis of anarchistic cooperation. I don't really worry a lot about accusations about "PC". Most of the time such accusations come from patriarchalists, or the Patriarchally Correct. > If rules are to be made they should emanate from the group > involved. They will. > goddag god aften. - Thomas Thomas Gramstad thomas-AT-ifi.uio.no
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