[Peace-discuss] Re: [UCprogressives] Re: Pro-choice [wasRe: letter to my former comrades]

[Paul M. King]

As a veteran I've been mildly offended at various times by
posts to this list. I take these comments as evidence that
there is peace work to be accomplished everywhere...even among
a group of well-intentioned peace activists.

Sensitivity can be accomplished if we know what has been said
that offends and why. This can be done in a number of
different ways.

..:: paul

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 16:39:16 -0600 (CST)
>From: Carl Estabrook <cge at shout.net>  
>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Re: [UCprogressives] Re:
Pro-choice [wasRe: letter to my former comrades]  
>To: Jen Tayabji <tayabji at shout.net>
>Cc: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>,
peace-discuss at lists.groogroo.com, Linda Evans
<veganlinda at yahoo.com>
>
>What would we say to the following argument?
>
>"As a American soldier, reading through all of the postings
on the peace
>list about the ethical/theological/moral/hypothetical
implications of the
>Iraq war has been very alienating and even insulting at time,
especially
>as most of the people posting responses are civilians. And
this discussion
>has turned into members' trying to force their beliefs onto
one another.
>This is a REAL and tangible issue for almost every US
soldier. Please
>respect our right to choose and stop trying to force your
beliefs onto
>others. You are only going to end up alienating people from
this list."
>
>--CGE
>
>On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Jen Tayabji wrote:
>
>> I would like to echo Linda's comments.
>>
>> As a woman, reading through all of the postings on the
peace list about
>> the ethical/theological/moral/hypothetical implications of
abortion has
>> been very alienating and even insulting at time, especially
as most of
>> the people posting responses are men. And this discussion
has turned
>> into members trying to force their beliefs on to one another.
>>
>> This is a REAL and tangible issue for almost every woman.
Please respect
>> our right to choose and stop trying to force your beliefs
onto others.
>> You are only going to end up alienating people from this list.
>>
>> Jen Tayabji IDF Executive Director
>>
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