Doug Henwood wrote: > This is utter crap, Henry. I never tried to stop discussion of race > on lbo-talk; the only thing I wanted to stop was the trading of > personal insults. When I asked you and your interlocutors to stop > insulting each other, you took this as an affront to your dignity and > asked to be unsub'd. For her part, Yoshie has declared it worthless > to attempt a discussion on race, which is a bit of a limit on > discourse. She can be as ungentlewomanly as she likes; I don't have > adecorum fetish. > Evenhandedness is important in moderating. I did not ask, I chaallenged the moderator to punish the guilty, and you chose me. > > I think Brad's critique of Lin Biao's prose style, and with it the > critique of Maoism, has some substance to it. It's an odd conception > of socialism that thinks the masses should revere the Great Leader, > and treat his writing with scriptural reverence. Instead of > dismissing his critique as racism, you might tell us why this isn't a > hierarchical, patronizing philosophy of governance. Denouncing him as a > racist enemy of the people does more to confirm the critique than refute > it. > Please read my latest reply to DeLong re Charlie Chan. Regards, Henry
