[Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] denial...

C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
Mon Jun 23 19:33:12 EDT 2014


For comparison purposes - I eschew the tempting tragedy/farce line - we might read an article from thirty years ago,

"The Chorus and Cassandra," Grand Street, Autumn, 1985 <http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/1985----.htm>

by the late Christopher Hitchens, a man whose political views I rarely admired.

--CGE

On Jun 23, 2014, at 4:54 PM, David Gehrig via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Francis has his own site from which to spew his rancid racism. Why do you insist he pours his racist sewage into your list as well? 
> 
> Now, I understand that, as a Counterpuncher, you're not allowed to actually admit it in public when you find something antisemitic, even when it's a five-alarm fire like what pours so consistently from Francis, because that would risk letting the issue out of the teeny tiny ideological lockbox Cockburn and St. Clair shoehorned it into so disastrously ineptly all those years ago, and that's simply not a step you could take. 
> 
> But what is the effect for the list? Acres and acres of Nazi sewage. All of it preventable. All of of it stamped "100% Estabrook Enabled. Thanks, Carl, Couldn't Have Done It Without You!"
> 
> @%<
> 
>> On Jun 23, 2014, at 4:36 PM, "C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Asking or advising Francis and Gehrig to stop posting to a political discussion list is one thing; preventing their doing so is quite another. 
>> 
>> The latter clearly violates principles of free expression. Use your 'delete' key.
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