First, apologies for the lateness of this reply. I made the move from
college to home only to discover when I got here that my modem had died (I
use Ethernet at college) forcing me to, well, wait....
Darryl Shannon wrote:
> Kat: what in YHWH's name leads you to believe that I am "right-wing"?
Darryl, I have only a murky grasp of political terms. I know that the left
is socialist and the right is capitalist, and I know you're capitalist. If
you're going to take offense then you're going to have to explain to me
exactly what's wrong with that definition, aside from being overly
simplistic.
> I do admit to a belief that capitalism is a morally superior economic
> system. How does that make me right wing? How does that make me in
> favor of starving people to death?
I don't believe that you, personally, are in favor of starving people to
death; I know you're not. You seem to have taken my somewhat sataric and
heavily sleep-deprived posting a bit more seriously than I intended. Let me
explain what I was trying to say.
First, I *was* trying to be funny. You responded with what I considered to
be unnecessary force to an at best sketchy and implausable hint of a
suggestion that someone was calling you a right-wing fascist. It's a failing
of mine, Darryl, and you should know that by now: I see someone taking
themselves too seriously, I poke. I have the same impulse about exposed
ribcages and tickling. (That one gets me in trouble too, come to think of
it. Must work on impulse restraint.)
Second: stop going off the handle and *think* about what I said, or we'll
get nowhere. Fascism kills; that is, in this day in age, so much an accepted
fact as to be a truism. I am suggesting that maybe you need to examine that
moral position of yours a bit more closely before you act the Righteous
Chr... excuse me, Capitalist.
Facists kill people who don't fit their model of perfection. How are we, as
capitalists, different?
Faciscm kill people to feed their system. So does capitalism.
Faciscm sacrifices morality to itself: so does capitalism, as I've been
noticing more and more the more I take political science classes or (God
help me) watch the news.
To summarize: prove your point, and *then* you can be irritable when people
call you names. Until then...
See ya, Darryl!
Kat Feete
