29-08-2017, 09:10 AM
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:Gilbride's reply above is an absolute crystallization of my original point in comparing these discussions with a religious crusade. And as to why I stay out of them.
If we examine what he is saying, its the same thing Doyle was saying when I decided to stop talking to him about this issue:
You cannot use material from ROKC, because if you do then you are endorsing their ideas about, say something, like PM.
What Doyle and Rich want to do is to essentially exterminate any reference to, or material from, any ROKC member. In the most drastic terms they want to install a sort of apartheid system of intellectual confinement to them. Therefore, its not enough to edit Bart's work, because to them that still gets his name out there and someone might then read the original.
My reply to this:I will be damned if I adopt that kind of intellectual censorship simply because Doyle and Rich have deep-seated personal problems with ROKC. In a way its kind of shocking that they even propose this kind of intellectual system of Jim Crow. And its a bit crazy that we are even talking about it. But fundamentally, that is what these guys are advocating: a religious crusade. Which, ironically, has Duncan McRae as their poster boy. You know, the guy who lost his original data. ::
Sorry, I won't be a part of the Doyle/Gilbride campaign to stamp out the ROKC. I won't take their pledge. That is not what K and K is about. And it should not be what DPF is about either.
Gosh, we're getting old, Jim. Now suppose something came out of those soon-to-be released files that proved our boy Lee Harvey really did shoot our president?
What was half of this dialogue about then ?