Re: Kelly versus the Men in Manholes

Alessandra Iantaffi (A.Iantaffi@reading.ac.uk)
Wed, 1 May 1996 10:28:13 +0100 (BST)

Devi,

Thanks, I hope that the list will go back to meaningful debates in the
near future, meanwhile I hope that people will bear with me if I get
hooked on conversations
about what other people call political correctness, and I call human rights.

Alessandra

On Mon, 29 Apr 1996 anima@devi.demon.co.uk wrote:

> Alessandra Iantaffi writes
>
> >I thought the net offered some
> >space for discussion, and not a space to recreate a replica of what goes
> >on IRL academic circles...
>
> Um. You hit the nail on the head! For the last few weeks I fear that the
> style and the content of this mailing list has very much degenerated, as a
> quick scan through the older archives will show. Eschewing a proposal from
> the mailing list organiser that the disrupters be banned from the list
> (since censorship represents an ultimate abandonment of reason and free
> speech), some of us have departed from the group in despair at the ad
> hominem level of argument; others are lurking for the time being, ready to
> rejoin the dialogue when substantive issues are raised and reasoned out.
>
> Bear with us all: _all_ parties to what's happening! Just long enough for
> you to make your own mind up about the content of items as they appear,
> from _all_ quarters in the mailing list.
>
> Kindest regards,
>
> Devi Jankowicz
>
>
>

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