File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1996/96-12-15.193, message 7


Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 20:20:31 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Beasley-Murray <jpb8-AT-acpub.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Juan's evasions and misrepresentations


Jerry, why can't you simply apologize and leave it be?

You get more disingenuous and more dislikeable the more you protest your 
supposed honesty, sincerity and indignation.

a) why the insult anyhow?

b) if someone calls me an "English dolt" (say), I take it that the 
"English" is more than a factual qualifier of a general insult, but is in 
some sense part of that insult.  Equally, if someone calls me a 
"small-minded graduate student" (say), then I would equally tend to think 
that the idea of small-mindedness is more than contingently attached to 
the idea of graduate student in the speaker's utterance.

Take care

Jon

Jon Beasley-Murray
Literature Program
Duke University
jpb8-AT-acpub.duke.edu
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons


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