Re: [Pen-l] Crooked Timber censors me

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

dsquared@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Me, among others.  What's up?

http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/crooked-timber-censors-me/

They [Crooked Timber] have a thread going on over there about the Jared 
Diamond/New Yorker scandal. I tried to post a link to my articles but 
the moderators blocked it.

I stopped posting there in 2006 after they removed a comment about 
Yugoslavia that did not fall within their State Department liberalism 
parameters. Here’s what I had to say about it at the time.

http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2006/08/19/rotten-timber/

Now I don’t bother posting there except under exceptional circumstances. 
Not long after Peter Camejo died, they posted an item about him that I 
decided to follow up with a link to something I had written. I had only 
known Peter for close to 40 years and considered myself a disciple.

This time I wanted to post some links to what I had written about Jared 
Diamond and the New Yorker only because I had been in contact with 
Rhonda Shearer long before the news of the scandal broke. She considered 
my articles on Diamond both before and after the scandal useful and I 
thought that people who read Crooked Timber might as well, at least 
those unlike about half the commenters who hate Rhonda Shearer and adore 
Jared Diamond.

I really wondered what got into the head of the moderators when my post 
showed up. Did they think that by releasing it they would be endorsing 
unrepentant Marxism? The guy who wrote the piece on Diamond there is the 
chairman of the philosophy department at Albany State, one Jon Mandle. 
He is the author of “What’s Left of Liberalism? An Interpretation and 
Defense of Justice as Fairness”, a book that ostensibly prepared him for 
the role of censor.

Drop him a line at mandle@xxxxxxxxxx and let him know what you think of 
his actions.
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