What a chicken-shit response! "The inference seems to be..." Then disparage the alleged inference and go off on a tangent as a way of downplaying the fascistic trash Lind was writing both before and during the time he was contributing to CounterPunch.
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > From http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn07292011.html > > Incidentally, on the topic of Breivik, we have had an enquiry from a > reader noting that Breivik’s “Manifesto” has plagiarized material from > William Lind, erstwhile Director for the Center for Cultural > Conservatism for the Free Congress Foundation, and asking that since > CounterPunch published material by Lind, what is our precise > relationship to this contributor. The inference seems to be that we > published racist neo-Nazi propaganda which helped inflame Breivik. God > knows what he would say about our contributor William Blum, considering > the late Osama bin Laden famously cited Bill as one of his favorite > writers. > > As any CounterPuncher can quickly establish by reviewing Lind’s > contributions through our “Search” function at the top of this home > page, we published columns on the conduct of America’s wars by Lind > between 2003 and 2007, in the Bush years because, from a conservative > position, he was a trenchant and knowledgeable military analyst and > critic of the US onslaughts on Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere. Lind > had been a participant of the military reform group, trenchant critics > of the Pentagon. > > His column was distributed by the Center and we would pick it up if it > was on themes we cared for, which did not include Lind’s commentaries on > many other matters, the cultural downslide of America and so forth. > > CounterPunchers should know that its editors stand responsible for > pieces CounterPunch publishes – though we obviously don’t agree with > every word in the roughly 3,000 pieces we put up on this site every > year. We publish and where necessary edit articles for the edification > of a large and intelligent regular readership. We don’t publish > anti-Semitic or Nazi propaganda, as assessed by any rational person. I > add this because many people eager to throw these terms around are > irrational and usually malevolent. If you read our website with any > frequency you will know where we’re at, as a left, radical enterprise. > We’ve always held it as part of our brief – stemming from political > appreciation of the actual prospects here in the USA – that we should > acknowledge positive political work and insights on the libertarian > front and the right and from original viewpoints. Every once in a while > some Trotskyite purist like Louis Proyect will hoist his skirts and > jump up on the kitchen table, aghast at the sight of an “incorrect” > thought or assault by CounterPunch, often specifically me, on the canons > of political and cultural PC as sedulously observed by this politically > and intellectually demure old Trot. Then, when I say something he likes > he’ll dispense a grateful bouquet. > > We don’t hold ourselves responsible for articles our contributors > publish elsewhere. We have neither the time nor inclination to dredge > through their lifetime archive on the internet to scrutinize articles > they may have written one, five, ten or twenty years ago. These days we > get regular requests from contributors to purge our archives of their > seditious thoughts because they are up for a job, or are in a tenure > battle. A new search site has just been launched to enable the internet > bloodhounds to person their blacklisting tasks more efficiently. That’s > not our world. > > * * * * > > Unfortunately, Alexander does not engage with what I wrote. I > specifically said that Lind’s articles were not objectionable except > one. I guess he still stands pat on this one unfortunately: > > 4GW theory warns that we now face a world of cultures in conflict, > that > we must defend Western culture and that many, perhaps most, other > cultures are threats, especially when they flood Western countries with > immigrants. Cultural Marxism welcomes immigrants who will not > acculturate precisely because they are threats to Western culture. > > Rather sad, really. > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Sandwichman
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