Re: Yoshie and Lou

["Richard Fidler" <rfidler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lou Proyect wrote, in reply to me:

>>I did not attack Yoshie for criticizing Blaut in his dying days. I
criticized her for bombarding the list with cut-and-paste jobs from
websites that had nothing to do with Marxism. I also criticized her for
profligate crossposting.....<<

>From the List Archives:

>>From: Louis Proyect
· Subject: Re: Yoshie, Leona Freed and the Native Indian question
· Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 19:34:57 -0800

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. <<


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I rest my case.

Richard Fidler
rfidler@xxxxxxxxxx