Re: [Fwd: DFL Delegate letter] - how to dehumanize other people

[Carol Becker]

The fastest way to dehumanize someone else is to call them a name.  Hats off
to everyone who has wrote in saying this kind of stuff does not belong on
this list.

Carol Becker
Longfellow





- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Fwd: DFL Delegate letter]


> Friends,
>
> I missed the "neo-nazi" remark. Actually I'm glad I don't know who stooped
to
> make such an unfounded and sensational comment. Such a slur has no place
on
> this list. It's ironic that such writers often wrap themselves in the flag
of
> political correctness and then descend in record time to new depths of
> degraded rant. This is the kind of flagrant and opportunistic incivility
that
> drives decent people away from res publica.
>
> Please stop.
>
> Ann Berget
> KingField 10-10
>

RE: [Fwd: DFL Delegate letter]

[List Manager]

OK Everyone - here's what happened:

Dave sent a private note to Wizard. Wizard, unfortunately, forwarded her
response to the entire list.

As harsh as Dave's post was, it wasn't intended for our eyes and deserves
only private scorn. Wizard, however, violated a big-time list rule: not
forwarding private posts to the list. This is important to keep the whole
shebang from degenerating into personal backbiting. (Ironically, as with
Barb's original post, what Wizard did was unintentional, I'm sure. But it's
still a list violation.)

Please check who your mail comes from. If from an individual, it's an
off-list post. If from the Minneapolis Issues server address, it went to
everyone. BUT JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE VIOLATED THE RULES DOESN'T MEAN YOU GET
TO!

The moral of the story this week is - look before you post, and think a few
times before you send junk to the list. Occasionally, you just might holster
your rhetorical guns - not every fault and foible, be it ours of the city's,
needs a bitter shout-out.

Everyone, please settle down and act like grown-ups. Dump this thread now -
we've obviously proven we can't handle it.

David Brauer
List manager, Mpls-issues
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fwd: DFL Delegate letter]

[ABerget]

Friends, 

I missed the "neo-nazi" remark. Actually I'm glad I don't know who stooped to 
make such an unfounded and sensational comment. Such a slur has no place on 
this list. It's ironic that such writers often wrap themselves in the flag of 
political correctness and then descend in record time to new depths of 
degraded rant. This is the kind of flagrant and opportunistic incivility that 
drives decent people away from res publica.

Please stop.

Ann Berget
KingField 10-10