Re: criticising Arundhati Roy

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's nothing wrong with defending her.  But you can do so by saying something
positive about her is rather than saying something about Doug here.

The list is more like a community.  Is I feel less necessity about preventing people
saying something negative about outsiders than I do about similar words directed at
people on the list.


On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 07:01:02PM -0400, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> On 4/15/07, Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I'd be happy to drop discussion of Roy, but Doug's criticism about Roy
> is all about her person, not her politics.  Although she is not here
> to defend herself, and she may not care what's being said about her
> here, it's still unfair, it seems to me.
> --
> Yoshie

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