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

[Chris Goodrow]

I'm not sure if you all recall this or not, but the very first reply to Jesse's email all but called this group an anti-semitic group before doing any kind of research into the events that took place at the meeting. This is known as contempt prior to investigation. If this falls under your umbrella of treating others decently, then what has followed does as well.
People may have felt as if their toes were stepped on and they retaliated, some more eloquently than others.

Chris Goodrow

(217) 898-5039


From: rev.a.r.cline at gmail.com
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:11:34 -0600
To: carl at newsfromneptune.com
CC: sarah.lazare at gmail.com; Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net; OccupyCU at lists.chambana.net; ewj at pigsqq.org
Subject: Re: [OccupyCU] My Resignation From the Occupy CU Listserv

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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