Tim and anybody else on Futurework to whom it may apply,
Please stop this diatribe against Ed Weick. Calm down please. He is not at
all what you are imagining him to be. I have been reading Ed's messages
ever since this list started four/five years ago and he is far from being
the person that he has been described recently by one or two. He is
civilized, sensitive, too long in the tooth, too intelligent and the very
last person on this list to harbour any prejudices on racist or ideological
grounds. It's unfortunate that he's Canadian, that's all.
Keith Hudson
At 20:26 09/12/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Now, I admit I might have missed part of the beginning of this
>jew=capitalist thing during the turmoil of switching ISP's, but Ed's
>attempt to apologise about the shmazzozzle is even more offensive than the
>stuff I have read. He tried to turn jew=capitalist into
>protester=brownshirt and he thinks that should fix it. That is so whacked
>that I would not know where to begin in debunking it if I were to bother
>trying.
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>I have been noticing Ed Weick for awhile. He is the poster boy example of
>somebody with a complete lack of good sense trying to be a philosopher. It
>isn't that he 'offends sensibilities;' personally I love offending
>'sensibilities.' It is that he shoots off his mouth about whatever pops
>into his head because he is either incapable of, or can't be bothered with,
>first working out the implications of what he is saying. Thus he keeps
>laying eggs faster than a leghorn hen on estrogen and wondering why he is
>being 'misunderstood.'
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>No, people understand what you are saying, Ed. It is that you yourself
>don't understand what you are saying, which should suggest to you that
>perhaps you should shut up.
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>That is the end of my contribution to this, although it doesn't seem to be
>moving on very fast. Tim R.
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>>>Agree.
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>>>From: Tim Rourke
>>>It is time this whole putrid 'string' about whether jews are capitalists
>>>dissapeared. It should never have gottern started. If it does not I am
>>>going to contact the Jewish anti-defamation league. Blech.
>>>
>>>Tim R.
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>>But please allow me one last word. I feel as though I've been
>>misunderstood, or at least understood by only a few people. I personally
>>was not calling Jews anything. What I was talking about was the groundless
>>persecution of the Jews or indeed of any people, a process that usually
>>begins and becomes justified by repeatedly labeling them "capitalist",
>>"infidels", "unbelievers", "terrorists" or whatever the anthithesis of the
>>dominant set of beliefs happens to be and scares people enough to make them
>>react. In doing so I was reacting to some of the news coming out of
>>Seattle, where being "capitalist" was a very bad thing, and where some small
>>franchisees had windows smashed. I know that what happened in Seattle was
>>nothing like Krystalnacht, but I couldn't help thinking of that fateful
>>event and the awful things that followed it.
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>>I apologize if anyone has been offended. I will move on and refrain from
>>using an ironic style of writing again. However, I do hope it was the style
>>and not the substance of what I wrote that bothered people.
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>>Ed Weick
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