[PEN-L:8322] racism

[Rod Hay <rodhay@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Henry wrote:
"Some of my best friends are Chinese."

Henry

This is just the type of provocative accusation that I am talking about. It
serves no purpose but to antagonise. If you are accusing me or anyone else
on this list of being a racist, I demand more evidence that the fact that I
do not think that Mao-Tse-Tung Thought is the height of Chinese intellectual
accomplishment.

Racism is a serious charge that should not be thrown around lightly.

Hero-worship is the antithesis of socialism. Perhaps you should read what
Marx said about Carlyle's On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in
History.

If your undying faith is not shared, perhaps you should rethink it rather
that denouncing the heretics and naming the sinners. I have always preferred
reason to proclamations of faith (but that is of course an enlightenment
idea that is out of favour today).


Rod Hay
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