----- Original Message -----
From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 25 January 2002 04:34
Subject: Re: Silence
| Hey, come on, Lawrence--this isn't fair. We're all of us living in glass
| houses when it comes to prejudice,
agreed
and it doesn't logically follow that
| popular opinions are any freer of prejudice than unpopular ones.
didn't say that - and the popularity or otherwise of the ideas never
occurred to me; I am used to uttering ideas which are extremely unpopular
In my no
| doubt blinkered opinion, Josie's just as entitled to the courtesies as
| anyone arguing the other side,
agreed
| and rebuking her
I disagreed with her terminology
| or condescending to her
I don't think I did; but may we not tell each other when we think they are
wrong without being accused of condescension? Maybe that's why exam results
are going up all over USUK
(Beginning a response "sigh" is, though, quite near to condescension)
or
| expressing anger at her, personally, targets _her_, not the opinions to
| which everyone's entitled to take exception.
I did not express anger at the person. For that there would have had to be a
missing element. My anger is at pernicious ideas.
L
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