From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Fri Aug 24 2001 - 09:39:58 MDT
Russell Blackford wrote:
>
> Mike said
>
> >The fascist luddites ...
>
> I'm as opposed to neo-Luddites as anyone here and have a better record than
> most of debating them in public in a rapidly expanding body of academic and
> professional publications.
>
> However, it doesn't help to talk about "fascist luddites" any more than it
> does to talk about "fascist corporations". The neo-Luddites tend to be
> illiberal (I have classical liberalism in mind here). They are not, by and
> large, fascists. We should avoid such lazy insults. It's not much better
> than referring to opponents as Nazis.
Well, I didn't call them Nazis, I called them fascists. Oranges and
tangerines, as it were. Those that seek to use the law to restrict our
freedom to progress technologically is fascist in their behavior.
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