1996-12-05 - Re: Intellectual dishonesty

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From: “Timothy C. May” <tcmay@got.net>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Reply To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961204211709.13090A-100000@blacklodge.c2.net>
UTC Datetime: 1996-12-05 07:49:43 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 23:49:43 -0800 (PST)

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From: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 23:49:43 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Intellectual dishonesty
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Though I have some suspicions that "Logos" is someone I know in Real Life,
I've come to think he's as bad for the list as Vulis, Grubor, and the
others are.

His "superficial decorum" does not hide a deeper viciousness and cluelessness.

At 10:12 PM -0800 12/4/96, logos wrote:
>Dimitri Vulis wrote:
...
>> It's funny that you should say this, since Tim May and other prominent
>> "cypher punks" devote so much attention to their "enemies'" ethnicity and
>> religion. Recall the attacks on "crazy Russians", "immigrants who abuse
>> American freedoms", the recent attack on Hispanics, the attacks on Jews,
>> the attacks on Mormons...
>
>     Yes I do recall some of those statements.  Since you
>feel that those 'attacks' were inappropriate, is it not
>intellectually dishonest to engage in such 'attacks'
>yourself?  If it was wrong for them, how can it be right
>for you?

Fatuous nonsense. The "attacks" Vulis refers to were satirical. This has
been lost in the Noise of the Big Lie.

Logos is now the 17th resident of my Eudora filter file.

--Tim May

P.S. I certainly hope this "Logos" nym is not who I suspect it is, as this
will surely end our Real World friendship. A fucking bozo.


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