--- "Frederick \"FN\" Noronha" wrote: > > The issue of "missing" Mario's original point does > not arise, because I obviously don't read 90% of > Mario's posts. > Mario wonders: > Fred While I will simply take note of a possible puerile attempt at ridicule and sarcasm, let me get this straight. You are shamelessly admitting you made a critical comment about something I said without knowing the context in which I had said it? One would think that a professional journalist would be instinctively curious about the context of something he is criticizing, before he criticizes it. Doesn't Goanet have archives for this purpose which are very well organized? > Fred writes: > > As far as using the term "leftist" to describe my > politics go, I have no problem with that. > Obviously, to me, this is no term of abuse! > Mario observes: > Other than Mervyn's peculiar obsession to nitpick anything that Gilbert and I write, why would any rational person consider it "abuse" or "name calling" to call you, an avowed and proud leftist, a leftist? Wouldn't this show the person's own Freudian view of leftists? > I did not intend the adjective left-wing as abuse. I used it as a descriptive adjective because your response to me for my comment to Miguel were typical of a left-wing perspective on the issue in question. > Miguel's disapproving and unnecessary insertion of an inappropriate politically-tinged anaolgy in an otherwise thoughtful essay on an unrelated Goan accidental tragedy, as well as your rush to criticize my COMPLIMENT of a subsequent essay by Miguel as a political "pot-shot", are vivid examples of this. > Fred writes: > > Consider myself to be one of those fed-up with the > way things are, and work for change in the battle > of ideas. Someone could question my commitment to > that cause; but being labelled a "leftist" isn't an > insult to me. Obviously, in a very non-party but > political way. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leftist ::: In > politics, left-wing, the political left or simply > the left are terms that refer to the segment > of the political spectrum typically associated with > any of several strains of, to varying extents, > socialism, green politics, anarchism, communism, > social democracy, progressivism, American > liberalism or social liberalism, and defined in > contradistinction to its polar opposite, the right. > Mario adds: > Fred, I commend you for an excellent exposition of the valid usage of appropriate political terms to describe various political philosophies, this time placing your comments in proper context:-)) > I especially appreciated your placement of my right wing ideology as opposite to a closely related spectrum that includes anarchists and communists and their modern political derivatives which use clever marketing euphemisms like "greens", "liberal" and "progressive", not to mention "social democracy" while consistently opposing democracy for anyone who does not have it already. > At your very kind invitation, but also at the risk of being accused once more of "political speech", I will take the opportunity, not to question your intentions, which I think are noble, but what you tend to support. > For example, your comment above that you are "...one of those who are fed up with the way things are". Does your dis-satisfaction with "the way things are" suggest that you preferred "the way things were"? If so, does that include the now-defunct march of communism, a previously more repressive and religiously intolerant Soviet Union, a militarily rampant China now far more congenial while basking in the warmth of economic progress, an India mired in mindless extreme socialism and bureaucracy and economic xenophobia since Independance, and entire Muslim populations brutally oppressed by small bands of Muslim tyrants? > It seems like your side of the political spectrum opposed changes in every one of these horrible situations, and continues to do so. Am I wrong? >
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