From: "Karl Carlile" <joseph-AT-indigo.ie>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 18:25:08 +0000
Subject: M-I: (Fwd) [PEN-L:11162] Re: shun him!


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Date:          Mon, 7 Jul 1997 07:28:45 -0700 (PDT)
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From:          Gordon Taylor <GTAY4290-AT-URIACC.URI.EDU>
To:            Multiple recipients of list <pen-l-AT-anthrax.ecst.csuchico.edu>
Subject:       [PEN-L:11162] Re: shun him!

I recently came on to this list, because I was hoping for some sort of
antidote to the one sided class war that is currently raging in this
country. The class and race divide continue to grow deeper and deeper,
and we are told by those who wield power, that the solution to this is
for those who have little,to have even less, and those who have the
most to get even more!?!?

I thought that I might read some intelligent discussion on what needs
to be done to reverse the road that this country and this world seems
to be headed. Unfortunately, all I read is the same old doctrinaire
slogans. Now we are even getting censorship.

It is apparantly permissable to apologize for the crimes of the Mao's
cultural revolution, or Stalin's purges, or the Kim dynasty of North
Korea, but do not violate political correctness by offending the
sensibilities of feminism.

I find the postings of Karl or Joseph, or whatever his name is to be
boring, rambling, and rather pointless. The posts of feminism were no
exception.

Instead of censoring  him, he could either be ignored, or just maybe,
the postings could have been used as a springboard for an intelligent
discussion regarding the strategy, tactics, and methodology of
feminism. That is, do feminists sometimes put much effort into staking
out their own territory at the expensive of progressivism in general?
Such a question could also be applied to various other interests on
the left. (Minorities, gays, greens, etc.)

I suppose that I have just succeeded in becoming the next person to be
banned. It does not matter, because I am pulling out to protest the
censorship of Karl. I will leave the rest of you to pat each other on
the back, and pretend that it is still the Summer of Love.

Gordon

                                      




                          Yours etc.,
                                     Karl   


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