Re: Jeremy's Final Comment
I don't know about anyone else on the list, but my problem with some of his
recent comments is not that they are bullying, but that they are incredibly
arrogant. It may indeed be the case that the English language is routinely
used for being 'playfully aggressive', but I think he's being disingenuous
here. His comments to Karen (in relation to her well-justified scepticism
about the discourses of evolutionary psychology about gender) come to mind.
When he says that 'it must be awfully inconvenient to be allergic to the
truth', he's not being playfully aggressive, just plain aggressive. And
such aggression certainly doesn't 'serve the truth', in a Socratic or any
other way.
Liz
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