why throwing around words like "anti-semitism" is fascism

prozak at anus.com prozak at anus.com
Wed Feb 26 17:46:48 CST 2003


> >There's your contradiction right there: statements which provoke 
> >thought are prone to criticism. I don't mind it. I do mind 
> >*immaturity* in an intellectual sense, including taboo.
> >
> >If you want to waste time attempting to bash me publically, that's 
> >fine, but this IS the Pynchon list (right?).
> >
> Contradiction...?

Here's what you wrote:

> 1. You seem to have a knack for making unsubstantiated, unsupported, 
> even indefensible, statements. This does promote neither dialogue nor 
> any other form of "truth seeking".
> 
> 6. Remember that when you speak publicly you are automatically subject 
> to criticism. And people judge other people from their actions (which 
> includes publicly expressed opinions, even posted links).

Anything that's subject to criticism - and invokes it - touches on 
something of interest. This is called dialogue, whether we can admit 
interest in the topics without crossing taboo lines, or not.

> Sorry, but the above post canveys no meaning (at last none that has 
> anything to do with reality). Too much entropy, it seems...
> When you start making any sense, we'll talk again.

So you say. But your assertion is:

"unsubstantiated, unsupported, even indefensible"

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