[Peace-discuss] AWARE & abortion

[C. G. Estabrook]

Are you telling me to ignore Maggie Kuhn...?

I've had unfortunately occasion to mention before examples of what 
anthropologist Laura Nader has called "coercive harmony."

She describes it as "basically a movement against the contentious in anything, 
and it has very strange bedfellows, from people with various psychiatric therapy 
movements, Christian fundamentalists, corporations sick of paying lawyers, 
activists who believe we should love each other ... coercive harmony [is] an 
ideology that says if you disagree, you should really keep your mouth shut."

[For the full article, google "Harmony Coerced Is Freedom Denied"] --CGE


Ricky Baldwin wrote:
> I think people, including me, are getting tired of this debate in AWARE, and
> in particular hearing from you on it.  That mat be the touchiness you hear.
> 
> Ricky
> 
> "Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn
> 
> --- On *Sat, 2/6/10, C. G. Estabrook /<galliher at illinois.edu>/* wrote:
> 
> 
> From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss]
> AWARE & abortion To: "Ron Szoke" <r-szoke at illinois.edu> Cc: "Brussel Morton
> K." <mkbrussel at comcast.net>, "Peace-discuss List"
> <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>, "Karen Medina" <kmedina67 at gmail.com> 
> Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 1:34 PM
> 
> And if I'm opposed to Americans killing Afghans, I simply should not kill
> one, & stop trying to impose my views upon others?
> 
> You seem a bit touchy, Ron?  What's really at stake here?  Certainly not the 
> "last word."
> 
> Regards, CGE
> 
> 
> Ron Szoke wrote:
>> Right, Mort.  Here we go again.
>> 
>> We might simply suggest to Carl that, if he is so opposed to
> abortion, that
>> he not have one, & stop trying to impose his views upon others.
>> 
>> We can remind him that he doesn't speak for AWARE & cannot
> dictate what the group does or doesn't do.  He doesn't know any more than you
> or I do about WHY  people contribute to AWARE, despite all the bluffing,
> faking & flinging
>> of red herrings.
>> 
>> I will personally contribute the entire $65 to AWARE for the sole
> purpose of
>> putting the supporting ad in the CCHCC ad book.
>> 
>> Refusal to grant his magisterium apparently enrages Carl, as we
> will see in a
>> few minutes.  We will be treated again to his compulsion to
> always, ALWAYS have the last word,  which he apparently thinks of as 
> completely definitive &
>> devastating.  But the forthcoming torrent of name-calling, insults, 
>> accusations, abuse & general vituperation won't impress me, &
> won't persuade
>> anybody of anything, I would guess.
>> 
>> It is, I grant,  amusing to hear him criticize others for being
> tendentious &
>> indulging in mystifications.  Speak of the mote & the beam!
>> 
>> -- Ron
>> 
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