Re: Extremism

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Jan 11 2001 - 22:56:34 MST


Would you children kindly take this boring squabble outside?

- s.

Joe Dees wrote:
>
> >Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 10:41:10 -0500
> >From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <mlorrey@datamann.com>
> >To: extropians@extropy.org
> >Subject: Re: Extremism
> >Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
> >
> >"Michael S. Lorrey" wrote:
> >>
> >> Joe Dees wrote:
> >> > You have accused me of being both an ignorant and clueless dupe
> >> > and a malevolent and duplicitous shill, even though those two
> >> > categories are mutually exclusive - just like extremists do to any
> >> > who do not agree with them in every particular. You have been
> >> > sneering, snide, smug, supercilious, contemptuous, dismissive, and
> >> > generally self-righteous and absolutistically and unreflectively
> >> > self-certain towards both me and my positions - just like
> >> > extremists would be.
> >> > You and the droogies that I named engaged in a pack assault upon me
> >> > when I had the temerity and gall to challenge your totalitarian
> >> > thought-hegemony enforcement on this list - just like a herd of
> >> > extremist sheeple would - resulting in the list consensus decision
> >> > that you create another list within which to proselytize and
> >> > propagandize each other, and mutually sing to the approving choir.
> >> > The shoe fits, and whether or not you have the prerequisite
> >> > honesty and integrity to admit it to yourself or others, you have
> >> > been styling it, until the exi-freedom banishment, for some time
> >> > now.
> >snip
> >>
> >> I hope at least you seek help with your pathological lying.
> >
> >Oh, and Joe, you still haven't told us if you are related to Donna
> >Dees-Thomases. Are you related to the founder of the million mom march?
> >C'mon, its not so hard to tell the truth...
> >
> I have said this on list before, but I guess you missed it; as far as I know, we are not related. You, however, are obviously paranoid and looking for plots and schemes, as most extremists are wont to do. I am neither a clueless dupe nor a malevolent shill, the only two categories extremists seem to possess with which to thoughtlessly pigeonhole people who refuse to be their cognitive clones, just a vocal moderate. That's the truth - try it on for size.
>
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