The point is that when you talk about drawing a line, neither you nor I nor anyone like us going to draw it. And we shouldn't trust the hand with the Sharpie.
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 9:34 AM <fkalosar...@yandex.com> wrote: > Language isn't only semantic and syntactic--a vehicle for conveying > meanings. it also has a pragmatic dimension. Speech is action and its > artifacts can be layered. Sometimes speaking can assume a guise of bland > semanticity when in a deeper sense it is the equivalent of a beating in a > dark alley. Hence the convenient "dog whistle" or the Nazi idea that > "these Jews" are so obstinate--why won't they just sit down and calmly > discuss the "Jewish question?" > > Academic freedom can't and shouldn't prevent every kind of cancellation. > Somewhere along the line there will be our freedom versus theirs and "we" > (if there is a "we") have to fight for ours, just as we stand for our > morality as versus theirs. "We" (whoever "we" are) have to struggle and > win--put certain offspring of [*gender-free bad-animal insults*] in a > cage for the rest of their lives or just shoot them if they won't stop > fighting. > > When the University of Virginia Department of English gave Richard Spencer > a raving mad level of undergraduate honors and got him into the University > of Chicago, the assholes that did it no doubt thought that, amid the joyous > wine, cheese, nookie, and/or the odd secret affiliation with Opus Dei, they > were striking a blow against the Cancel Culture of the Left. [Apologies to > all the Glorious People's Anuses of the People's Glorious Revolution.] > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#3925): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/3925 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/78498471/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
