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The Privatization of AMTRAK'S N E Corridor
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<p>[quote user="selector"]</p> <p> <blockquote> <div><img src="/TRCCS/Themes/trc/images/icon-quote.gif" /> <strong>Bucyrus:</strong></div> <div></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;">Crandell,</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;mso-fareast-font-family:'Times New Roman';mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:small;">...” what do you mean by “associations, ascriptions, and supporting entities”?</span></span></span></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p> </p> </blockquote> </p> <p>I mean linking the 'ways' to ideologies such as socialism, libertarianism, etc. Talk by all means about the ways, just don't ascribe the support for those 'ways' to political bents. It is the politicization of the discussion that ruins it, not the moderator's dutiful imposition of the host's rules on the discussion.</p> <p>Crandell</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I can certainly understand the desire by moderators to not have a discussion degenerated into a food fight of name calling, which is often characterized by the disparaging use of ideological labels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I disagree that the labels themselves are the cause of such friction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Such altercations are the hallmark of the uninformed, and they serve no purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The moderators seem convinced that the use of labels inevitably lead to these food fights, However, I have rarely, if ever, seen that type of behavior here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If one were to examine all the locked threads, I don’t think you would find a pattern of ideological labels being at the root cause.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More often, discussions are locked because some non-participant perceives the crossing of an imaginary line between civility and passion that nobody can define.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">I say if we are going to have rules, write them like railroad rules to say what they mean and mean what they say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
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