labels

[Murthy Yenamandra]

Just a digression without a firm position on CP, so go easy on the
ammo...

MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu writes:
> [...] Now isn't it a basic credo of contemporary progressive thought
> that people should be called or labeled what they want to be called or
> labeled?  So how can we claim she's not a feminist and not ourselves be
> guilty of, etc. etc.

Leaving Paglia alone for a minute, is this true? Sure, people have the
right to call themselves whatever they want, but is everyone else
obligated to classify them under that label? If Rush Limbaugh goes
around calling himself a liberal, do I have to agree or be accused of
squelching his freedom? Just what does that label signify, then?

Murthy

-- 
Murthy Yenamandra, Dept of CompSci, U of Minnesota. mailto:yenamand at cs.umn.edu
"Always there's that space between what you feel and what you do, and in
that gap all human sadness lies." - _Blue Dog_