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Re: This leftist rant

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wally)
Sat Apr 21 16:09:34 2001

Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 16:12:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Wally <wally@sub-zero.mit.edu>
To: "Sourav K. Mandal" <Sourav.Mandal@ikaran.com>
cc: mit-talk@mit.edu
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> > Fuck off. This is mit-talk, and though I'm guilty of transgressing the
> > list's intent myself this week, [...]
> 
> Yes, you are.  Please refrain from throwing stones.  If you, in a
> sudden fit of Net etiquette, need to blame somebody for launching this
> thread, point the finger at Aimee Smith for posting something about
> Harvard on an MIT list, and at me for responding to that leftist
> trash.

Do you *at all* desire to be taken seriously? Or is 'being correct
(objectively speaking, of course)' more important than 'being reasonable
(in the widely-held sense of the word)'?

W.


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