File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0009, message 254


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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