I really don't think that the occasional problems we have on PEN-L (which, by the way, are far fewer than on most other lists I'm involved in, including conspiracy theory lists) have much to do with those three words.
How about we do something reallllly radical and decide that we all have to be adults about those three words and not react with a great big hissy fit every time we hear a fascist idea described as "fascist", a Nazi idea described as "Nazi" or a conspiracy theory described as "a conspiracy theory"? I'm prepared to kick off by saying that I find a number of conspiracy theories entirely plausible (even if, as in the case of nearly all Bilderberg research, all the difficult work has been done by Nazis) and that as both a nationalist (Welsh) and a socialist, I find it harder than most other socialists to deny that the Nazis were part of the socialist movement. Any other confessions? Go on, if things get really outre, I'll tell you why I think Zionism has more to be said for it than is commonly acknowledged. best dd -----Original Message----- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doug Henwood Sent: 27 October 2006 20:47 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: a possible pen-l principle On Oct 27, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Jim Devine wrote: > I know I've contributed to the problem, but how about we ban the words > "fascism," "Nazism," and "conspiracy" from pen-l? This is clearly a fascist conspiracy to suppress debate that Hitler would be proud of!
