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- From: briand@anasazi.com (Brian Douglass)
- Subject: Re: jefferson question
- Organization: Anasazi Inc Phx Az USA
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:41:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.184126.8987@anasazi.com>
- References: <1992Dec30.035809.1925@news.cs.brandeis.edu> <1992Dec30.203121.17796@anasazi.com> <1992Dec31.032239.3040@Princeton.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec31.032239.3040@Princeton.EDU> glhewitt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gary Livingston Hewitt) writes:
- >This is getting tedious. Take it to a higher level or take it to email.
- >This comment is directed to Mr. Douglass, who is doing an excellent
- >impression of a fool. Please note followups.
-
- Let's see, I'm a fool for defending myself after being accused of
- deliberately misleading this group by having originally posted falsely
- ordered excerpts. Excuse me, but that is something MUTLA and the rest of
- those signatures in my kill file do with scholarly works, not me. Will you
- be so quick to call David Davidian and others fools when they challenge the
- MUTLA crowd for editorial bias?
-
- Let's see, I'm a fool for exposing that rath never read the article by
- Douglas Wilson in question, yet felt qualified to reorder the excerpts to
- substantiate the position that the Brodie thesis of a long term, happy
- affair between Jefferson and Hemings is still plausible.
-
- Let's see, I'm a fool for demanding (got it right this time) that rath
- provide references to substantiate his/her belief that the Brodie thesis is
- alive and well, and not relegated to the ash heap of history.
-
- Let's see, I'm a fool for asking (heh, demanding is more like it) that rath
- submit his/her own portfolio as to why his/her opinion should be taken at
- face value since no refences have been provided.
-
- Let's see, I'm a fool for publically defending my honor when it is
- publically insulted. Instead Mr. Hewitt thinks I should skulk away to e-mail
- and leave rath's final words as lasting impressions before this esteemed
- forum. Sorry, but I don't let my candidates do that when they run for office,
- I surely won't do it here.
-
- If all this makes me a fool, then I would hate to see what an idiot is.
-
- And while Mr. Hewitt may wish to see this thread on a higher level, I would
- remind him that is exactly how it started off. It was a simple post of
- excerpts fully referenced to the source periodical and without any
- editorial comment by myself. And yet I am the one admonished and called fool
- by a so much more thoughtful person than I, while nothing is said about
- raths actions after he/she
-
- 1. commented on
- 2. reordered expressly to change intent
- 3. and questioned the entire thesis without evidence
-
- of an article he/she never read. If "lowering" this thread means calling
- for rath to read an article before editorializing it, substantiating with
- references his/her own/Brodie theory, or at minimal providing evidence of
- his/her scholarly position, I think it a lowering we could use more of.
-
- >Have a happy New Year!
-
- Cheers!
-
- >Gary
- >--
- > ++====+========+==========+=======+===++
- > || | Gary| L. Hewitt| | || HELP! I've been imprisoned
- > || glh|ewitt@ph|oenix.prin|ceton.e|du || by my .signature! HELP!
- > ++====+========+==========+=======+===++
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