Well, I'm not suggesting that one CAN be a scholar while only looking at
one side of things, just that those who are offended by a post on a
listserv can delete the post if they don't want to be offended, without
introducing a moderation or censorship based on some orthodoxy or
other....
TL
Timothy Lillie, PhD
Associate Professor
The University of Akron
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Akron OH 44325-4205
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Arnold [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 1:04 PM
> To: Lillie,Timothy H; [log in to unmask]
> Subject: RE: postdoc opportunities at Leeds - British Academy
> Visiting Fellowships
>
> Trouble is you can't be a proper scholar if you only look at
> the pretty things, think if you were studying English
> literature how much you would miss if you kept to Bowdlers
> Shakespeare.
>
> and for every plastic surgeon working on a nose or boob job
> there have to be a proctologists too.
>
> (some of) you Americans, you really amuse me.
>
> Larry
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lillie,Timothy H [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 14 July 2006 13:32
> > To: Larry Arnold; [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: RE: postdoc opportunities at Leeds - British
> Academy Visiting
> > Fellowships
> >
> >
> > I want to pose a slightly different question, based on the one that
> > asks where the line is that makes one's attack move from being well
> > considered to being offensive:
> >
> > Is language on a listserv ever worthy of censorship based
> on someone's
> > idea of what consitutes offensive language? Or, is the
> toleration of
> > what offends some of us sometimes simply the price we pay for the
> > useful stuff? After all, if we see a post from someone
> whose previous
> > posts have offended us, we can simply delete the posts while not
> > censoring the individual.
> >
> > TL
> >
> >
> > Timothy Lillie, PhD
> > Associate Professor
> > The University of Akron
> > Zook Hall 322
> > Akron OH 44325-4205
> > 330-972-6746 (voice)
> > 330-972-5209 (fax
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: The Disability-Research Discussion List
> > > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Larry
> > > Arnold
> > > Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 8:15 AM
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: postdoc opportunities at Leeds - British Academy
> > > Visiting Fellowships
> > >
> > > Aristotle might have been a bugger for the bottle as the
> pythons put
> > > it but entertainment knows not the bounds of propriety and just
> > > chastisement can come in the form of creative invective.
> > >
> > > The point is that there may well be more thinking that goes into
> > > such a condensed response as mine as many dull academics
> could spend
> > > a life time trying to deconstruct you have to think about it to
> > > understand it and surely that is no bad thing.
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Where does a well considered and evicence-based contribution to
> > > > the debate end and a potentially offensive attack on
> list members begin?
> > > >
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