I have to admit to a similar confusion about the original post as Lawrence
experienced, I've read it through several times and can't quite see where
Dom is going.
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Dave
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From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
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> From: "Frederick Pollack" <[log in to unmask]>
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>
> | 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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