Re: Off Topic? (which topic?) (fwd)

I will raise few comments and drop off this topic entirely. First of all,
I agree with Andy and Alan comrades in their views about the off topic
discussion. They said what needs to be said very appropriately. 
Particularly, people who complain about off topic threads have
themselves effectively perpetuated off list issues and divided the list
with their reactionary attitudes. Thus, their suggestion of new topics is
another cover of their conservatism. No posts being posted so far were
off topic. They were all related to the specific needs of the wsn
community (conferences, talks, articles, etc..), and they were all aimed
at exchange of information and communicating academic knowledge,
particulary of use to graduate students. For your information, GUYS, I
will keep posting conferences and articles about third world issues,
women's issues and racism. These topics are at the very heart of the world
system and daily politics, even if you don't like to acknowledge them.
 
second, Andy is right. From my own perspective too, there is a BIG SILENCE
in every relatively progressive list I have been so far with
conclusions of socio-biological research. Many assumptions of
socio-biology are taken for granted or regarded as scientifically
true. Unfortunately, some wsn members are not exception to the rule. They
are either implicitly advocating a proliferation of racist discourses or
detracting attention from it by constantly writing a story of "off topic"
absurdity!!

btw, Dr.B, the talk was in SUNY/Albany not in Buffalo!!!


Mine Doyran, Phd student, Political Science, SUNY/Albany

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 15:51:58
-0700 (MST)  From: Richard N Hutchinson <rhutchin@U.Arizona.EDU> To: WORLD
SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu> Cc: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK
<wsn@csf.colorado.edu> Subject: Re: Off Topic? (which topic?)

> Why would having an off-topic post move some people to complain, but posts
> advocating we use a racialist-scientistic frame or defending the
> conclusions of sociobiologistic research result in their silence?
> Andrew Austin