On Aug 16, 2005, at 8:40 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote:
Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Did someone give you a wedgie today or something?
I mean, welcome back, but sheesh!
Dave
No. not at all. I'm going to repost something I wrote
a while ago, which got _no_ response from you or Nick,
about why the way you two argue bothers me so much.
[SNIP]
I have to agree with Gautam. Claims of moral authority tend to be a
bit self serving no matter which side of the political divide one is
on.
I'm confused.
Is my asking whether someone gave Gautam a wedgie a claim of moral
authority? Is my welcome back and subsequent "sheesh" a claim of
moral authority? Is Gautam's disappointment that he sent a message
that I don't even recall having seen before a claim of moral
authority?
Let me recap.
I posted a message stating that the president's "get a life" comment
about Sheehan showed him to be heartless as well as mindless. Nothing
about Jews. Nothing intellectual about it at all.
Gautam replies with a message that attacks me as intellectually
dishonest and cowardly, hints that I'm an anti-semite because I didn't
refute a statement that I didn't even know Cindy Sheehan had made.
Everybody and her brother jumped on the bandwagon because the
Anti-Semitism card had been played.
This argument is poor even by Brin-L standards.
Dave
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