From: Charlie Stross (charlie@antipope.org)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 14:26:19 MST
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:31:11AM -0500, Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 10/28/2002 10:18:49 AM Central Standard Time,
> charlie@antipope.org writes: Repeat after me: "I must improve my reading
> comprehension".
> Charlie,
> I think that sort of gratuitious ad hominem has gotten all socialists
> a bad name and will get you no where on this list. I have learned that in
> the midst of this company my proper attitude is one of respect if not
> outright humility. <G>
Grin noted: but as long as you keep using socialists as a whipping-boy
and synonym for all things evil, and using them as a convenient
target for demonization, I'll keep calling you on it.
I'd do the same if you were using Moslems, Jews, feminists, conservatives,
or any other designated out-group for the same purpose. It's not your
beliefs that annoy me -- you're perfectly entitled to them -- but the way
you express them. If you replaced the word "socialists" with "women" or
"blacks" in any one of your postings on the subject they'd be offensive;
I don't see why you should get off the hook just for picking on a group
that isn't flavour of the month among libertarian extropians.
-- Charlie
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