On Nov 5, 2006, at 7:14 AM, Louis Proyect wrote:
When you strip away the rhetoric, like the screen from the Wizard of
Oz, all you are left with is a single, isolated former activist in
Ohio whose sole contribution to the American revolution is posting
apologetics for a regime of women-hating torturers.
Pathetic.
Doyle;
Wikipedia says of pathos:
<x-tad-bigger>A common use of pathos in argument is creating a sense of rejection if the audience doesn't agree. Creating a fear of rejection is in essence, creating a pathos argument.
Doyle;
The picture painted above by LP of Yoshie does not seem to me accurate. Yoshie has people who agree and support her. She is active at times. So this is miss statement of reality to claim pathos or emotional distance.
In other words I question the emotion structure of what LP says. Now this is a new sort of Socialist character argument. What I mean is that Socialist character ought to be permeable so that the movement grow. The ability to allow room for growth means not trying to isolate members of the left who are important in our debates. The argument for social isolation as a Socialist character aspect is what I am driving at.
As Socialist we are concerned to unite our movement and find ways to unite the movement. And to do that we must have emotional function to unite the movement. Therefore, to counter this 'emotional structure' a Socialist argues for understanding of others to unite with them and grow the movement.
thanks,
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