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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: Call For Discussion - unmoderating misc.activism.progressive
- In-Reply-To: cts@dragon.com's message of 22 Jan 93 15:22:52 EST
- Message-ID: <JMC.93Jan22204305@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
- References: <1993Jan22.022307.27241@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
- <1993Jan22.152252.1023@dragon.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 20:43:05
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- I see no objection to misc.activism.progressive in its present form as
- a moderated compendium of leftist propaganda. The original proposal
- was to call it misc.activism, and I objected to that on the grounds
- that it misleadingly suggested that all activism was of their sort. I
- think I was one of the people who suggested that if they would add
- .progressive to the title, it would no longer mislead any but the most
- naive. It is not a discussion group, since almost no responses, even
- leftist responses, are posted. Let it be. There is no lack of
- opportunity to post criticisms of articles in
- misc.activism.progressive, e.g. in this group. By the way,
- misc.activism.progressive has occasionally accepted postings from me
- of articles complaining about the lack of human rights in Cuba.
-
- However, I would like to see a newsgroup of a different persuasion.
- Conservatives and moderates have made far less use than the left of
- Usenet. I have undertaken to post the articles from each issue of
- _Measure_, a monthly newletter of University Centers for Rational
- Alternatives (UCRA). UCRA was founded by the philosopher Sidney Hook,
- an anti-Stalinist and democratic leftist, who was shocked by the
- anti-democratic, intolerant and anti-American developments in 1960s
- leftism and its efforts to suppress opposing views in the universities.
- UCRA still has its work cut out for it. For now I post the articles
- in alt.activism.d.
-
- More material can be obtained, and I would welcome volunteers to
- help find it and post it.
-
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- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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