tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post7639731880549877382..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Normative PluralismDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-88921160287820920042015-05-04T15:01:59.415-07:002015-05-04T15:01:59.415-07:00Both King and Gandhi fought for more voting and mo...Both King and Gandhi fought for more voting and more enfranchisement. I teach King and Gandhi (among many many other activists and theorists of nonviolence) to undergraduates. I was trained in nonviolence at the King Center in Atlanta as part of Queer Nation. I am an advocate of nonviolent revolutionary struggle. Literally nothing I have ever said to you is incompatible with any of that, indeed my stance on voting is informed by these commitments. Your "intervention" is impertinent and nonsensical. By all means try again -- or learn the lesson.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-10797941880562091922015-05-04T14:42:24.667-07:002015-05-04T14:42:24.667-07:00Dr. King, you seem to avoid tough decisions rather...Dr. King, you seem to avoid tough decisions rather than to make them -- the kind of rabble-rousing you're engaged in will only bring about change too fast. The negro is not yet ready for full integration. If we just vote for slightly more moderate candidates each time ~ <br /><br />Mr. Gandhi, you seem to avoid tough decisions rather than to... High Arkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14723123626955733759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-71742770799052324292015-05-04T13:49:15.134-07:002015-05-04T13:49:15.134-07:00You seem to avoid tough decisions rather than to m...You seem to avoid tough decisions rather than to make them -- voting is always a tough thing precisely because people are imperfect, diversity is ineradicable, and history is interminable. Why do you seem to assume that voting precludes rather than being a part of lots of kinds of political engagement? Why do you seem to assume that anyone who votes will therefore turn out to vote for Nazis? It is easy to vote for someone and then complain to them if they become a war-monger and educate, agitate, organize to stop the war, resist the war, topple them from power for their war-likeness, and so on. One votes for Nazis because one is an asshole or because Nazis are the only ones on the ballot. If every party looks like the Nazis to you, because no party is perfect, then you need to check your eyesight. I'm not nervous about responding to you, as is evident from my responses to you, it's just that I am not moved to seek out what you say otherwise because it isn't really my cup of tea. So long as you keep raising issues here, I respond to them in the pedagogical spirit I cannot easily shake.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-11210035682794362392015-05-04T03:42:51.584-07:002015-05-04T03:42:51.584-07:00What happened if they gave a war, and nobody came?...What happened if they gave a war, and nobody came? <br /><br />Somebody has to make the tough decisions...otherwise, who will? <br /><br />From Milton Mayer, "If I had refused to take the oath in 1935, it would have meant that thousands and thousands like me, all over Germany, were refusing to take it." <br /><br />Your full response took a bit longer: <a href="http://higharka.blogspot.com/2015/05/parting-veil-lurid-ontology-of.html" rel="nofollow">Parting the Veil</a><br /><br />This one doesn't have many readers, but if you're nervous about responding there, just do it here; comment notification is turned on. High Arkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14723123626955733759noreply@blogger.com