RE: Roger Scruton Weighs In

From: Lawrence DeBivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Fri 26 Sep 2003 - 23:05:45 GMT

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    Is Joe up to his old anti-semitic attacks and bigotries again? I thought the moderators had warned him, and acted on their warnings....

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    > Subject: RE: Roger Scruton Weighs In
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    > From: Vincent Campbell <VCampbell@dmu.ac.uk>
    > To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'"
    > <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    > Subject: RE: Roger Scruton Weighs In
    > Date sent: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:33:28 +0100
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    > > Just a bit of trivia (oh and an idea of the kinds of sources Joe
    > > thinks is viable),
    > >
    > > Roger Scruton once described my field as 'sub-Marxist gobbledegook'
    > > taught by 'talentless individuals who can't get jobs in the media.'
    > >
    > > More recently he got chucked off several newspapers after it turned
    > > out he'd been given money by tobacco companies to write puff pieces
    > > for them in his newspaper columns.
    > >
    > > As you can imagine I'm not too open to his views on these or other
    > > matters.
    > >
    > Scruton does seem to be something of a curmudgeon, but it is only
    > logically credible to discredit his ideas on their merits, not to ad
    > hominem attack their author. I could not fail to notice that you did not
    > condescend to do so as far as the article is concerned.
    > BTW, apropos of some ad hominem thing, I guess, what are your
    > complaints concerning Bernard Lewis, Lee Harris, Robert Kagan,
    > Fouad Adjami, Ibn Warraq, Kenneth M. Pollack, Ronald D. Asmus,
    > Daniel Pipes, Graham E. Fuller, Barry Rubin, Robert S. Litwak, Jeffrey
    > Goldberg, Christopher Hitchens, Lawrence Wright, Richard W. Bulliet,
    > Samuel P. Huntington, Robert D. Kaplan, Mark Bowden, etc., etc.?
    > Published by such rags as FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE, FOREIGN
    > POLICY, POLICY REVIEW, THE WILSON QUARTERLY, THE NEW
    > YORKER, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, etc.?
    > > > ----------
    > > > From: joedees@bellsouth.net
    > > > Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > > > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 2:01 AM
    > > > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > > > Subject: Roger Scruton Weighs In
    > > >
    > > > Go to:
    > > >
    > > > http://www.morec.com/hyperion/scruton.htm
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