Posted by boBB on May 22, 2000, at 21:21:33
In reply to Re: Grip this..., posted by Elizabeth on May 22, 2000, at 4:48:51
I see were not yet ready to let flowers grow on this little battlefield...
Perhaps some time reading Chomsky would help you better understand the conflicts that arise over definitions of appropriate behavior. If you have no time for that, maybe watching such behavior on television (Married with children? Homicide? Most HBO flicks?)would be less threatening to you than witnessing it in an interactive forum such as this. Whatever. I trust you are not a person who would long remain in one of the environents such as south central LA where that kind of behavior is pervasive. And I doubt if you could long stand, as I have, in the midst of an angry racist mob, attempting to understand, or at least derail, their rage. I wonder how we can ever submlimate these emotions if we do not first accept them as expressive of some legitimate need?
For my part, I will stand with the radicals. My insight sometimes helps them find their way back into the community of civilized actors, and my experience sometimes allows me to help them better articulate their concerns in language the masses better understand.
... cause I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the wo~o~rld will live as one.
poster:boBB
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