[PEN-L:7643] Re: Wao

[sawicky@xxxxxxxxxx (Max Sawicky)]

MP:

<< My point must not have been clear at all.  This kind of
shouting is
pointless.  I happen to believe the Boshevik and the Chinese
revolutions
were wonderful events.  Max and Brad disagree.  So what? >>

This is a good example of some combination of failure to
communicate on my part, and inclination to project and
extrapolate erroneously on yours.  Speaking for myself, I was not
aware of broadcasting any focused judgement on the Chinese or
Bolshevik revolutions.  If anything, I referred to some of what
came after, and mostly, to how certain persons understand the
aftermath.

<< . . .  Don't we have more important uses for our time? >>

Indeed I do.  I'm done with those two dudes.  They may test my
fortitude with further idiocies, but I will be trying to direct
my energies elsewhere.

W said:

<< Max, I think we should distinguish between the man's
personality (of which I have no direct knowledge) and the point
he is trying to make. >>

By this time, I don't care what point he is trying to make.
Anyone who insists on reacting to negative comments on their
posts or thinking with accusations of racism is not worth taking
seriously.  I'm not going to engage someone who takes as given
and resorts in argument to the premise that I am racist.  It
would be self-abuse.  Let white liberals agonize over this
nonsense.  I'm not going to.

The rest of your post is well-taken in general, but irrelevant in
this context.

mbs