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Das GOAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
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> In a message dated 99-08-14 01:15:52 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >> Before D'Souza took the podium in an auditorium
> >> protected by armed police, professor Donald Klein, acting on
> >> university instructions, warned student activists to abstain from
> >> throwing things at the speaker, or shouting him down. After his
> >> speech, D'Souza was approached by an outraged Afro-American
> >> Studies professor who accused him of both "logocentrism" (the
> >> "white man's obsession with big words") and of having a "white
> >> perspective" (a preference for "rationality" and "sexual restraint").
>
> Ugh ... More PC "wisdom." Radical feminists share with the above-cited
> Afrocentrists a condemnation of abstraction and objectivity (as versus
> make-believe and "instinct") as "patriarchal" distortions of "reality,"
> essential to White Man's "phallic thanatocracy" [the precise phrase used by
> feminist "theologian" Daly, for whom penis = violence & death].
> Likewise, Consciousness is a heterosexist evil -- a weapon used against the
> "power" of the inchoate collective unconscious (Lilith, The Great Mother,
> etc) upon which Wymin rely, particularly in "goddess" mode (which
> unregenerate men unglamorously call PMS.)
>
> No arguing with these drones from the PC hive, 'cuz reason and logic are
> FORBIDDEN.
>
Actually, their arguments are highly *logical*; they just aren't *rational*.
D'Souza could be easily refuted, if the PC faction were patient enough to take
the time. It's not the logic itself that is flawed. It's the premises. If you
assume, with Mary Daly, that "penis = violence & death", then the rest of the
argument about "phallic thanatocracy" follows quite logically. By the same
token, if you assume, with Dinesh D'Souza, that competition is the highest
good, then *his* arguments make complete logical sense. IMHO, BOTH arguments
are flawed...which is precisely why they go at each other with sharpened
claws. The truth lies somewhere between the two extremes.
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