At 10:30 20-4-02 -0700, Doug Pensinger wrote: >>No...... maybe I don't hold "bashing" to be as negative a term as some >>people are taking it, but "bashing" *is* what occurs on most discussion >>lists. "Constructive Criticism" is critcism designed to construct >>changes. Since that is impossible on a List of this nature (Dubya hasn't >>subscribed yet (though he probably should! :)), the comments are clearly >>criticism with the intent of taking the moral stature of the United States >>down a notch among the Brin-L readers. Thus, the comments are "bashing." >By that definition, nearly all critical judgment on this list could be >construed as "bashing". For example, you have no direct control over >events in the Middle East so any comments critical of Arabs would be >"bashing."
Well, that *would* explain why with people certain people on this list, criticism of Israel always leads to immediate accusations of anti-Semitism... Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
