David Horowitz wrote:
Ninety-percent of
>my experience is that when I raise an issue I am vicious and personally
>attacked, and then when I respond in kind (I am not about to be intimidated
by
>such tactics), the other side suddenly becomes the "victim" of my "abuse."
David:
I can certainly understand your desire to fight back. But I think
sometimes you react before you are attacked, using pretty loaded, ad hominem
language before you even need to! I'd really like you (and all of us) to
take our admiration of the civil rights movement seriously. When you are
attacked (especially "pre-attacked!!), try responding with peace, love, and
sweet reason intsead of what seems to me to be schoolyard macho reactions
("I'm not about to be intimidated").
I've read some of __Radical Son__ and find it a very moving and
important memoir. Some of what you say about "the left" (whatever that
means) is no doubt accurate. But yuor macho tone and excessive generalizing
is off-putting. And pity is, you don't even need to do it!
Tony Edmonds
Ball State University
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