David Horowitz wrote: >I doubt if you can find a single instance where an insult that passed my computer >was not in response to a prior insult. If good manners means turning the other >cheek, well count me out. I guess there are some parts of the philosophy of the Civil Rights movement that you don't seem to adopt for your self. Understandable but sad. As a more general query, as a minor league sixties activist, I always had large problems-- (or should I now say "issues"? Yuck!)--with the idea of shouting down speakers, flaunting Viet Cong flags, using insulting language. Like Marty Jezer, I found it counter productive. Even a little juvenile. Maybe Mr. Horowitz retains some radical activist methodology in a very different cause. Whining back is pretty distasteful as a tactic in discourse, imho. Tony Edmonds Ball State University Tony Ed
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