Re: Lolita
Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu
Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:55:05 -0600
Jim,
I'm sorry, I don't follow how this is a response to my post. Please elaborate
on what professors (competent or otherwise) have to do with the lack of a real
Leftist force in American politics.
Matt Stevenson
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:26:43 -0500 (EST) jrovira@juno.com (blah b b blah)
wrote:
>Nah, you're following stereotypes and not looking at all the different
>forms of censorship in this society. It's not just about the stupidity
>of picketing "The Last Temptation of Christ" without having taken the
>time to read the book (or understand it, for that matter). How many
>fundamentalists do you know are teaching in State Universities? It's not
>because there aren't competent ones out there. It's because they just
>aren't hired for those positions, esp. when the market is glutted with
>professors.
>
>Jim
>
>"The written word is a power of such magnitude that only pedants would
>try to reduce it to rules. Or the French."
>
>--F.K.
>
>On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:53:36 -0600 Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu writes:
>>For no reason whatever I will toss my hat (head included) into the
>>ring of
>>political propagandizing. The problem that exists with the Right does
>>not
>>exist with the Left in America. rick is correct on this count. The
>>problem
>>with the Left is that it simply does not exist in any major party in
>>the U.S.
>>The Religious Right has the Republicans by the balls, but the
>>Democrats are
>>too busy going for that all important centrist vote to be considered
>>Leftist
>>at all.
>>
>>Consulting my Ouija board I find that:
>>Only when the stock market crashes in the near future, and the U.S. is
>>forced
>>to look the rest of the world in the eye again, will we see the
>>emergence of a
>>new powerful Left Wing in U.S. politics.
>>
>>