From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Fri Aug 24 2001 - 22:37:55 MDT
Olga:
If you've never gotten on an "enemy" mailing list just to check them out,
that's fine. But condemning other for possibly doing so seems like a heartfelt,
but possibly misplaced, reaction. I make a point to read things by people with
"pooposing" (opposing) views.
I do see some of what might be your problem with what PoC says:
> > As a philosopher-psychologist with half of his career spent in
> > clinical work, I had to coin "WWW Syndrome" for what I was
> > observing. "Whining White Wussy" syndrome. Also, WWW fits the never-ending
> > vocalizations of these people...waaaa, waaaa, waaaaaaa! Come on guys, buck
> > up. If you don't like the culture as it is, design your own.
Now, that might seem sufficiently critical of David Duke; I mean, in a sense,
that's what Duke and Führer-would-bes everywhere _are_ doing, "designing [their] own".
But I'd call PoC's comment, at the least, praising with faint damns.
OTOH, what he was observing was probably not all that was there. "WWW" might have been,
on that list, the only visible part of the ugly iceberg.
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