Comrades (was Foster responds)

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

> Now Foster is one of the bad guys? Gosh, gotta get out my scorecard...that
> was a quick switch if there ever were one.
> A fat head who doesn't know anything? That kind of characterization of a
> comrade is bizarre...
>
> Steve

The problem is that debates on PEN-l are not being conducted as means
for theoretical & empirical clarification as they should be.  The
guiding assumption often is that disagreements in theory & empirical
studies are ipso facto monumental political differences that draw the
line between comrades & enemies.  That's absurd.

At 3:18 PM +0000 6/21/01, Justin Schwartz wrote:
> If and when we ourselves ever get close enough to larger changes, we
> will see on which side of what line people fall out.

That sounds like a right attitude to me.

Yoshie