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: Thatcher and nationalism



Is Brad a resident sparing partner ?

CB

>>> michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 09/11/00 02:55PM >>>

I agree with everything the Doug says here.  I used the word "provocative"
to weasel out of saying something more precise.

Doug wrote
>
> That seems a bit excessive. I was interested that Michael used the
> word "provocative" as a pejorative the other day; what's wrong with a
> little provocation now and then? Calling something "nutso" in the
> context of a substantive post is different from a screenful of
> personal abuse. It's useful to have Brad around to keep the rest of
> us on our toes; if we can't have a conversation with a bourgeois
> social democrat, we'll really end up talking only to ourselves.
>
> Doug
>
>


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California State University
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