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

[C. G. Estabrook]

Does 'treating decently' mean not saying what you think because someone on the list might be offended? 

On Nov 16, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Alex Cline <rev.a.r.cline at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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