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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: General Observation
Yup, that's the way to increase nuanced discussion, all right -- ban people who disagree with you. And there are good precedents for that -- Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and Mao's China. See how well nuanced discussion improved in those places? Art In a message dated 6/6/2006 6:21:07 AM Pacific Standard Time, jhorn@monmouth.edu writes: I agree. Keeping Burke around eliminates the need for any nuanced discussion of policy, assessment, curriculum or anything else. He is a dependable and easy foil, pinata, and shameless idiot fool all rolled into one. For those who engage him, it offers a semblance of moving a point forward, when, in fact, any possible movement has been blocked by an unremitting refusal to even see the beginning point. You are right, Scott--this would be a very different list if he were booted, a fate he has earned many times over. Jim
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