> -----Original Message----- > From: Kirby Urner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 1:10 PM > To: 'Arthur'; 'Laura Creighton' > > It is you who bring in Marxism as a key word, without context, and expect > that to mean something to others. You presume a shared namespace. I find > that presumptuous on your part. > > That's why I prefer when you delve into personal autobiography. Then you > start to make a little more sense to me.
Without going into great autobiographical detail - I suspect that I have in fact had more potato pancakes prepared for me by and have spoken at more gravesides of folks who had been members of the Communist Party in its heyday - then most people on the list. So the understanding and respect I developed for the intellectual enemies of who these folks close to me at least at one time were, is not something that came overly lightly to me. And yes I see some relevance between my respect for those thinkers and the rejection of certain kinds of engineering efforts, that include a good deal of the engineering efforts made in the interests of gender fairness. No bogeymen. Just some intellectual honesty. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
