Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Julian Thomas wrote: > F**k the filter didn't work. Hahaha..... yeah, sure. > Point one - there are no 'truths' there are only constructions. I know that. But why don't I have the right to call someone a terrorist, if you feel otherwise? I was asked if I really believe that, and I said yes. What's your problem? > Point three - you argue by cheap rhetorical gestures - what is a mantra? What is music? What is an image? What is any word? You know what is meant, so there's no need to elude. > Define 'leftwing' without using emotive language. You know what is meant, and that's enough. > >From the amount of private emails I got from your last political outing on > this list it is clear to me that you offend a large number of list members who > merely shut up. Oh? A secret club of oversensitive, overly politically correct weaklings? Sorry, but in my environment I have to be strong to survive; I'm not a product of that sorry welfare state, aka the UK. > Keep politics off this list . No; if cars, lighters, fountain pens, and PC/Mac computers and "Canadians", police brutality, chain letters to help people in need, and hi-end audio equipment etc etc etc ad nauseum are somehow tolerated, then occasional politics shouldn't be much of a problem either. > If you want to argue join anyone of the political listservs. And precisely who do you think you are to tell me what to do and where to do it? > We have people here who are from diverse > poilitical/ideological/religious/economic backgrounds. Right, so be tolerant, Julian. > If you want to take this further, take it offlist. No; you should have done that yourself. > I'm sorry for subject others to this. No, you're not, or you would have written me privately. Bernard