Re: criticising Arundhati Roy

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We should try to avoid such personal digs.  They serve no purpose.

I would like to see this discussion dropped because it is getting so personal, but
in the future it makes more sense just to state your own views without attributing
ideas to someone else with whom you disagree.



On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 06:53:23PM -0400, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> The difference is that's not all she does, in criticizing what she
> criticizes.  I suppose Doug does have a criticism or two of Roy's
> ideas about US imperialism, Indian capitalism, the CPI(M) and the
> CPI(Maoist), etc.  Roy, for instance, opposed the Afghanistan War from
> the get-go in no uncertain terms, while Doug was hoping for a
> multilateral, not unilateral, intervention there.  But Doug hasn't
> articulated exactly what his criticism of her politics is.  He
> evidently thinks that's unnecessary, perhaps beneath attention of a
> serious male intellectual!
> --
> Yoshie

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