[PEN-L:9526] Credibility, II

[sawicky@xxxxxxxxxx (Max Sawicky)]

What CB says I said:

"since he blithely ( and I do mean lightly) dismisses the Native American
and African American Genocides as " ha(ving) has zero political impact from
any left political standpoint you care to espouse "

What I really said:

"Calling the treatment of native Americans or the Middle Passage "genocide"
is a rhetorical instrument for indicting bourgeois demoratic capitalism
(BDC) at its root.  That doesn't mean the term is inappropriate; it does
mean that
its political context often -- especially on PEN-L -- makes its use
tendentious.  People are not arguing about history for its own sake -- they
are trying to prop up problematic arguments and political precepts, and
doing it in a way, I might add, that has zero political impact from any left
political standpoint you care to espouse."

mbs