[Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] My Resignation From the Occupy CU Listserv

Alex Cline rev.a.r.cline at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 20:11:34 UTC 2012


I'm so glad to understand that there's no need to treat each other decently
because there are armed drones flying over the middle east! I would have
never made that connection on my own.


On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:44 AM, C. G. Estabrook
<carl at newsfromneptune.com>wrote:

> Stuart--
>
> I think it's a mistake to give in to Identity Politics' taste for
> censorship.
>
> It's a mark of the (self-imposed) weakness of liberalism over the last
> generation, that it's given up real attempts to stop wrong things from
> being done - and instead turned to furious attempts to make sure wrong
> things aren't said. (Cf. Hedges' 'Death of the Liberal Class.')
>
> The local Occupy group has seemed to me particularly susceptible to this
> error (and it's hardly alone).
>
> I do trust however you won't remove Wayne from the peace lists, whatever
> his sins against decorum.
>
> Stopping taunting (if that's what it is) in a political group is no
> substitute for stopping murder by a president. The morning headlines show
> us again how much needs to be done there.
>
> Regards, Carl
>
>
> On Nov 15, 2012, at 11:41 PM, Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Wayne,
> >
> > Look.  You can do better than this.   You're too often acting in this
> forum like a childish bully, taunting some of the best activists I know.
> Why?
> >
> > Maybe you're testing the system.   If so, you win.  I've snapped. I am
> cutting you off the OccupyCU list as of now.   I trust you will find better
> words to say, but you can say them to other people.
> >
> >    Stuart Levy
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