[Fwd: Reply to Dr. Schott]

Isn't there an editor on this list? Why is this garbage, this self-serving
ranting, being allowed to cluter up this discussion?

Patrick Preston

Louis Proyect wrote:

> At 04:47 PM 3/27/99 -0800, you wrote:
> >Can we all agree to leave ad hominem issues to off-list modes of
> >communication?
> >               Sincerely,  kpm
>
> Look, if a complete stranger told me in person what to say and what not to
> say in a public forum, like an academic conference, I'd punch his fucking
> teeth down his throat. I absolutely resent some professor telling me in
> effect to get out of what he thinks is a faculty lounge. That's what his
> message amounts to. I got news for you and all the professors on this list.
> If you can't get stirred into feeling, thinking and acting about the most
> critical moment in recent European history--the bombing of a sovereign
> nation by NATO--then you should choose some other topic to make a living
> from, like Statistics or Computer Science. You'll do less damage to your
> students, who might be under the assumption that their studies had
> something to do with ending social inequality.
>
>
> Louis Proyect
> (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)