On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:04 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]>wrote:
> > dmb said: > ... Platt has been using quotes selectively for years. He's been ignoring > the passages about the moral superiority of socialism and the degenerate > regression back to Victorian values for just as many years. In fact, I'd say > that intellectual dishonesty is Platt's basic method of operation. I've > posted the quotes you refer to many, many times as a response to his > right-wing truth-twisting but it never makes any difference. So I gave up > trying. But Platt has never given up on lying. > > Platt replied: > Of course, quoting Pirsig saying capitalism is superior to socialism is a > "waste of time," but quoting him saying he doesn't agree that SOM in the > intellectual level isn't. In the first instance it's "lying." In the second > it's holy writ. Makes you wonder who is being "dishonest.". > > > dmb says: > > I don't wonder at all who's being dishonest. You use quotes selectively and > dishonestly in both cases. In both cases you ignore the quotes that don't > reflect your anti-intellectual, pro-capitalist right-wing agenda. This > selective reading is conspicuously self-serving and you've always done it > that way. As a result, your "interpretation" of the MOQ is a grotesque > distortion. It's hard to imagine what could be less helpful. > [Platt] Evidence for your charges? None. Typical of a left-wing radical (as long as we're name-calling). Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
