Re: Yoshie, Leona Freed and the Native Indian question

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Doyle
>I find the way you, Lou, proceed in dealing with other human beings
>arbitrary and inconsistent.   What I see is a lot anger toward Yoshie, but I
>don't understand why Yoshie is sectarian.

You want to know what my anger with Yoshie is about? Okay, I will tell you.
Shortly after the Brenner debate started here, Jim Blaut said that he could
not participate as fully as he'd like because he was not feeling well.
Within a couple of days, I got mail from Nestor who told me that Jim had
cancer of the pancreas. Jim confirmed that within a day or so. Nobody knew
this except me and Nestor at that point.

At a certain point Jim stopped participating altogether. Yoshie asked me
what Jim's problem was. I told her that he had cancer of the pancreas and
was probably on his deathbed. So she became the third person who knew. What
was her response? None. Absolutely none. Not even a reply from her about
how terrible that was.  She just plowed ahead with the debate.

That's when I started to get really pissed. I wondered what the hell the
purpose of the stupid debate was when the person who Yoshie was trying to
refute was sitting in some hospital bed getting daily doses of
chemotherapy. I thought about writing her and telling her that she should
work on developing her heart rather than her mind, but I decided that if
you haven't figured things out like this at the age of 36, they can't be
explained to you.





Louis Proyect
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