Dear Michael,
I don't see any reason for us to declare war to anyone.
We can simply pay attention to whatsoever messages
we want to answer to.
George
At 12:57 μμ 2/12/1996 -0500, you wrote:
>On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Dennis D. Martin wrote:
>
>> Many of the responses to Joe Pope's comment on the Queer Conference were
>> quite incivil even as they chastised him for his opinions. Why is
>> incivility permitted in this case and not in others?
>>
>> Several responses proposed an exegesis of certain passages from the Bible
>> that would be favorable to homosexual activity. Fine, except that they
>> were proposed as having achieved a consensus among scholars that they do
>> not enjoy among scholars. Presenting advocacy scholarship as
>> dispassionate scholarship is not scholarly. Some would argue that all
>> scholarship is politicized. Fine, but then let's not claim some kind of
>> consensus and authority for what is still highly controversial and
>> contentious.
>>
>> What I do not understand is why everyone jumped on Joe Pope for
>> expressing his opinion when each person who jumped on him was also
>> expressing an opinion. He was criticized for hegemonic homophobia merely
>> by the assertion of an equally hegemonic homophilia. At least his
>> original statement was expressed in civil language, which cannot be said
>> for responses like "Grow up" or wordplays on his surname.
>>
>> In short, many of the responses to Joe Pope were very childish.
>>
>> Dennis Martin
>>
>>
>>
> Dear listmembers,
>
>I would just like to advise everyone on list that the above message comes
>from someone who on other lists (i.e. Latin-L) does indeed practice
>advocacy in his scholorship. I think everyone should know this before
>accepting the above post at face value. For those of you who are not
>familiar with Latin_L and its problems, as of late the list has been
>inundated with messages from christian fundamentalists and other members
>of the extreme-right. I've heard that other lists are having problems
>along these lines and wonder out loud whether or not this is part of a
>concerted campaign to disrupt these lists. Although I dislike censorship
>of any sort, if indeed this is happening, I suggest we pull the plug on
>these people.
>
>Michael F. Hynes
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