Re: [microsound] Re: us citizens... (OT)

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 9:49 PM -0500 11/4/04, david golightly wrote:
>I second that... I know everyone's feeling strongly about the 
>election right now (myself included) but there are plenty of other 
>mailing lists and online discussions pertaining to this topic, and 
>most of us count on this list to spare us from politics.

This is a fairly typical and reasonably stated example of an 
objection to political discussion on a special-interest discussion 
list, so I'll comment on it:

One reason people with strong political feelings participate in 
political discussions on nominally non-political lists is in order to 
get a particular "take" on a situation or philosophical polarity. To 
take the discussion from this microsound community to (for example) a 
Rush Limbaugh list or a Noam Chomsky list would be to have a 
different discussion. In other words, those who wish to discuss 
politics here do so because they want to discuss them here, not just 
because they want to discuss politics.
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