File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9711, message 373


From: Palcewski-AT-aol.com
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 10:24:01 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: PLC: LA Freedom of speech means even Pat Sloane gets to speak


This is meant to be a friendly, if blunt, response to Pat's post.  

Civility and mutual respect ought to prevail, especially here, but Pat both
on and off the list has demonstrated--intentionally or otherwise--little
regard for such things.  I refer to one of her posts in which she made a
disdainful, cutting reference to someone's status as a "graduate student," as
if this were somehow something to be ashamed of.  And I also refer to a
private correspondence in which I asked her to share some of her expertise in
art, and she did.  But in her posts she was at times dreadfully patronizing
and condescending.  Which I--as a 55-year-old man who has been around the
track a few times--found off-putting. 

Of course everyone's entitled to be as patronizing and condescending as he or
she pleases, but then one should not be surprised when another uses the term
"even" in a post touching on free speech rights.

John Palcewski


> Excuse me folks,
>  
>  I don't know how this thread got started or who started it.  And there's a
>  lot to be said for the idea that I don't care how you use my name as long
as
>  you spell it correctly.
>  
>  But I find myself puzzling over what "even" means, as in "even Pat
Sloane."
>   Maybe the person who started the thread meant some kind of compliment,
and 
> I
>  ought to be sending them a modestly gracious little thank-you note. And no
>  hard feelings if the thread-starter meant that if  have to be allowed to 
> open
>  my mouth, that's <really> scraping the bottom.
>  



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