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From: "Frederick Pollack" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 17 December 2001 16:06
Subject: (no subject)
| There's a great deal of wisdom in Dominic Fox's latest posting.
I was pleased when he said that he had forgotten what the point was he was
trying to make. I thought it was me.
I found it hard going with the relative vagueness rather like your - as in
_some academic or academic-hanger-on feminist theorist_
easy enough to condemn something unspecified as _whiny tyrannical
chip-on-shoulder lucubrations_
Not much danger of being challenged on that if you don't name names
not much interest in reading it
& are those addressed as _ you sweeties_ among those who are those who are
designated _some academic or academic-hanger-on feminist theorist_
these are rhetorical questions
| And by the way, have any of you noticed that the Taliban's gone? And
| that nobody seems too heartbroken?
Of course not - individuals will be mourned especially as I doubt that all
theTaliban are terrible people, just people bullied and / or tricked by
terrible people - but no one would *want them
Such a pity the US helped put them there
But many others have gone too, many of them as innocent as any on the
planet. And many more still are still here, but are blinded and / or maimed.
That is on top of the many who were killed in all the years when Northern
Alliance were the enemy
Few who get the microphones in USUK seem to remembering the blue skies the
day *those innocents were killed, because of course their lives aren't as
important as ours
If pushed, those who feel smug about recent events will say that because the
perpetrators didn't want to cause those injuries and deaths then they are
not responsible for them
So, who's to be saved next? The Chechens? The Tibetans. I think not.
L
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