Dear WSN'ers:
Those of you who have subscribed to the IPENet will recognize the
degeneration that is occurring in these exchanges that, not surprisingly,
involve the same set of people.
As with IPEnet, the substantive contributions from regulars are fast
withering.
Regards,
Ron Deibert
Department of Political Science
University of Toronto
At 09:47 PM 7/5/97 -0400, you wrote:
> Andrew Wayne Austin <aaustin@utkux.utcc.utk.edu> writes:
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>> List,
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>> Seems this list has acquired a reactionary element. Those of us who bring
>> to the attention of others that the construct of biological race is a
>> scientific nonreality, that its invention was born in ignorance and
>> exploitative relations, and that continued attempts to reassert its
>> ontology perpetuate racism--we are "politically correct."
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>How curious to be lectured on biology by a man whose philosophy gave us
>Lysenko.
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>A giggle on the side: among Andy's favourite insults (apart from the
>scatological and pornographic ones he sends out in his private mail) is
>calling people "idealists." Curiouser and curiouser, then, that critics of
>the Marxist hero Lysenko were sent to the gulag for the crime of "bourgeois
>objectivism." This presumably consists of observing, objectively, that
>plants of the wrong, ahem, strain, don't grow with the Party's ordained
>fecundity.
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>The great insolence in Andy's note, however, lies in his use of the
>apparently innocent "bring to the attention of others." Andy has brought
>nothing to the attention of others. He has no pearls for us. He has a
>good deal of common lumber, in amongst his filth and insanity, but it is
>sound lumber that the rest of us have used and built with all along --
>while he and his "epigones" and "cadres" were busy destroying.
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