I'll certainly think about this. You will perhaps cut me some slack for feeling surrounded and on hostile terrain. Tony Edmonds wrote: > 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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