From: Lawrence DeBivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Fri 26 Sep 2003 - 23:05:45 GMT
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
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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.?
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> > > 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
> > >
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> > > http://www.morec.com/hyperion/scruton.htm
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