At Sun, 21 Feb 1999 22:44:00 EST, you wrote:
>
>In a message dated 2/21/1999 9:29:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
><< I deeply resent your insinuendo that I might be making this info
>available to the members on this list to serve racist or fascist ends (BTW, I
>live in sunny Florida). Is there some sinister ulterior motive for your
>desire to aid and abet the suppression of this damning doctrinal info, to
>prevent our gaining knowledge of the seamy underbellies of those with which we
>disagree, and thusly to conceal their sick weaknesses from us? No? I didn't
>think so. Now, grant me the same consideration. We're all adults here; we
>can handle it (and we must! ! ). >>
>
>Actually, I didn't offer an innuendo to anyone directly, nor did I at all
>have anyone in mind.
>You do know that living in Florida does not make you at all exempt from such
>thinking? I cannot be so quick to say what "we" disagree with, because I don't
>know everyone of "we" on this list.
True enough.
>Though appreciated, the issue of being able to handle it and having to (must)
>handle are not things I come to this forum without. One aspect of "handling
>it" is to question whenever it appears and from wherever it appears; it has
>been my experience that the casual appearance of such materials has often been
>a means of generating discussion, perhaps feeling out the audience to see how
>much of it they respond to (a form of secret handshake) to see if there is
>some similarity that can be drawn out and built upon.
If someone privately mailed me with such an overture, the first thing I would do would
be to publicly "out" them by forwarding the letter to the entire list. But I have no
doubt that sort of fishing takes place between racists, pedophiles, and other
undesireables seeking comparably tendencied companions.
This is why I noted
>that an EcoFeminist forum would not be an untoward place for such similarities
>in ideology to be found.
This could be true of the Kaczynski Luddite approach (now there's a scary little
book), but there are very few feminist racists that I've met (at least, who are
willing to admit to such a contradiction as to be in favor of the emancipation of one
group while supporting the servitude of another).
>I do not, as you perhaps do, have the concept that people on an EcoFeminist
>email list and people who call themselves EcoFeminists would not have
>similarities in ideology to such stuff. If this were another type of forum,
>then I would have few or no suspicions that such things could be propagated,
>welcome, or find a few kinfolks.
>
>Nicole
Good points, although most likely someone of that ilk would subscribe to this list
only to lurk and spy. I mentioned my home state only because of your northwest
reference, but we have our share of nuts here, mainly KKK-ers,
creationism-in-school-ers and militant antiabortionists (and frequently people who
belong to one of these will belong to more).
Joe E. Dees
Poet, Pagan, Philosopher
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