Reply #162: I will ask you again not to put words in my mouth: it is a rude and dishonest habit [View All]

[struggle4progress]

This subthread begins with my comments about the current legal environment. You are, of course, free to disagree with those comments -- but instead you choose to bait me, attributing to me a view I do not hold and have not expressed. When I object to your putting words in my mouth, and stated my general view that progressive activists really need concentrate more on community organizing -- a view that I have promoted for many issues over many years, here and elsewhere -- you continue to bait me, as if I were simply slighting one community. Naturally, my response is that if everyone is as well organized as you claim, then we should begin to see some good results -- in response to which, you continue to bait me by putting words in my mouth, attributing to me views I do not hold and have not expressed

You do not know me and are not competent to discuss what I care about or what I notice, and your claims (about what I care about or what I notice) are simply unpleasant. People who already completely agree with you on these equality issues may make certain allowances for your unpleasantness, but in the larger political world such wedge-driving tactics are likely to backfire -- and for that reason, your approach seems to me juvenile and inexperienced