[lit-ideas] Re: Defending Offense.
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 22:38:22 -0800
Leftists who support the party line of the Islamists, as you do, are in a
bizarre self-destructive situation. If those you defend were to become
triumphant, you would be destroyed.
You recently wrote a "let us reason together" note that I appreciated and I
responded to, but you abandoned the project for reasons not disclosed and
now indicate your preference for insults.
Your project of seeking to offend is banal in the extreme. Any high-school
drop out can do that by sticking a finger out his automobile window.
Lawrence
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From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Mike Geary
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 9:58 PM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Defending Offense.
Good try, Lawrence, but no cigar. As American Westerners, you and I have
beheaded 30,000+ innocent Muslims in Iraq and 6,000 to 10,000 in
Afghanistan. The blood of innocents drips from our hands. Don't feel so
magnanimous in your new-found liberalism.
Mike Geary
Memphis
----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence <mailto:lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Helm
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 11:47 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Defending Offense.
Being Western rather than Muslim, Mike, I have no need to behead you.
Lawrence
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From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Mike Geary
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 9:38 PM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Defending Offense.
I like very much and have great respect for Judy Evans and David Savory, but
I insist on my right to be offensive.
I agree with much that they argue, but I agree more that I have the right as
an individual human being to speak my mind whether it offends others or not.
Or even to speak my mind hoping to offend others. I know of no right not to
be offended. This rightwing, militaristic, devil-take-the-hindmost, coin-op
culture offends me from dawn to dusk. I accept that and go about my
business. Every word out of George Bush's mouth is an offensive insult to
any intelligent human being. And I promise you, if this war against the
Muslims being waged by Bush were not ongoing, none of this cartoon business
would be happening. Not one Muslim would be in the streets were we not in
Iraq. So this too can be laid at the foot of our beloved Security Hero
George "Stasi" Bush.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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