Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >Note the tactic of shifting the issue to one of protocol rather than >substance. >The way you said it, Yosjie, is ungentlewoman like, therefore what >true. This is utter crap, Henry. I never tried to stop discussion of race on lbo-talk; the only thing I wanted to stop was the trading of personal insults. When I asked you and your interlocutors to stop insulting each other, you took this as an affront to your dignity and asked to be unsub'd. For her part, Yoshie has declared it worthless to attempt a discussion on race, which is a bit of a limit on discourse. She can be as ungentlewomanly as she likes; I don't have a decorum fetish. I think Brad's critique of Lin Biao's prose style, and with it the critique of Maoism, has some substance to it. It's an odd conception of socialism that thinks the masses should revere the Great Leader, and treat his writing with scriptural reverence. Instead of dismissing his critique as racism, you might tell us why this isn't a hierarchical, patronizing philosophy of governance. Denouncing him as a racist enemy of the people does more to confirm the critique than refute it. Doug
