I just want to support Jay for his very eloquent expression of what i would
call "open collaboration" as respectful and inclusionary engagement is
disagreed other.
At 01:33 PM 10/3/97 -0400, you wrote:
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>Why are conservatives? I know the usual theories (fears, reaction,
>preservation of privilege, false consciousness, habitus) and they are
>insightful as far as they go -- but they have never satisfied my
>ethnographic sensibilities, my belief that one needs to understand the emic
>perspective as a reference point for all other accounts of an Other. Why do
>conservatives believe they ought to believe as they do?
....
>We will never be able to make a more just society through democratic means
>until we truly, and sympathetically, understand the consciences of
>conservatives.
I can't agree with you more. I have a lot conservative friends and I learn
a lot from them disagreeing with them.
The question is how to keep and value other as a respectful partner of
communication and life without slipping in conformism and losing your own
mind set or disrespectful annihilation of other?
Eugene
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