Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 08:46:58 -0500 (EST)
From: ANTOINE GOULEM <goua-AT-alcor.concordia.ca>
Subject: Re: Kant, Hegel, Hitler


On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, jln wrote:
> 
>  I'm not saying that
> >because of this gap, Joe's point is false, just that it isn't made. I in
> >fact think it totally false to make the conneciotn that Joe made, but I'm
> >at a loss at howe to proceed. In general, with respect to the issue of
> >responding to fascism, I'm not interested too much in debate.  I have a
> >small amount of expereince in community responses to street level nazis
> >and white supremacists, and dialogue of any kind was never on the agenda,
> >never mind trying to create a space in which to describe the liberating
> >consequences of the categorical imperative.
> 
> This sounds like a logical fallacy to me: it's called a red herring or a
> proof surrogate.  What's your point?  What kind of experience?  If your not
> interested in debate, then  why are you debating?
> 
With respect to that claim, I am very interested in debating you guys.  
It's the boneheads that I wont debate.  The "experience" was preventing 
the nazis from demonstrating in celebration of white pride on Hitler's 
birthday.  There was no question of debate, or accomodation. They ran 
away. 
Antoine

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