[Buddha-l] (Steve) Lane letter

[Steven Lane]

 Stan,

   This is a very thoughtful a reasonable post. Thank you.

 You should know however that Hayes was warned on many occasions to stop
blocking my posts. He responded with his usual, trying to be clever but
failing, mocking remarks. My actions only came after the self styled
dictator Hayes, who is a legend in his own mind, consistently suppressed
opinions he didn't want to hear. None of this would have happened if Hayes
had been man enough to tolerate dissent. He was not. This is what the ultra
left wing fundamentalists on this list refuse to listen to. Then again what
would anyone expect from ultra left wing fundamentalists. They are true to
their own history.

 Steve

 

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Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 2:07 PM
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Subject: RE: [Buddha-l] (Steve) Lane letter

"Fort, Andrew" <A.Fort at tcu.edu> wrote:

>As much as I don't want to get involved with this, Lane's last post 
>riled me sufficiently to respond.  Mr. Lane seems to mistake what is 
>appropriate in the classroom with what is appropriate on an on-line 
>forum for scholars and others interested in Buddhism.  My politics 
>track closely with Richard's, but that's not what the university 
>employs me for, so that's not what I teach.  I have more conversative 
>colleagues who teach as I do, but vent to different audiences than I 
>do.<

This is a reasonable view.  On the other hand, Steve's main complaint is
that many of his posts responding to political remarks by Richard or other
liberally minded posters were not sent to the list.  It is reasonable to
expect that they would be, if only to give all posters an equal voice.  So,
I would encourage Richard to rethink his criteria for (1)allowing liberal
remarks to go unchallanged while (2) disallowing (more) conservative
responses to those remarks.  I encourage Steve to reconsider his present
course of action since (1) he has forcefully and clearly made his point
which, again, I think is also reasonable, and (2) people are entitled to
their good name, which it is wrong to harm.

Regards,

Stan Ziobro
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