[matilda] Respect on the email list

[Joe Morris]

Mozaz

It always strikes me as amazing when white, westernised men
can sit behind their compuiters, in their houses smoking their
role ups and weed, drinking their stella, eating vegitarian food
while claiming housing benefits and JSA and then sermon about
the nature of poverty.

I've been in Africa and I've seen what poverty is, and if anyone
dared describe my situation or the working class in this country
as poverty striken then they are fools at least and patently absurd.

Poverty only exists in so far as our ability to make choices. For
many working class people their choices are limited, and one
could at a stretch describe that as poverty.  But to pressume
or indeed assert that Steve, me, the worker in Tesco's or you Mozaz
are in "poverty" is not only a massive distortion of the facts,
it's down right offensive.

I find it hilarious that you can accuse me of middle class prejudice
when your argument that the working class are in poverty is
romanticised, nostaligic rhetoric and founded in no reality at all.

It must be very easy for your to shout poverty when everything
is provided for you...What a joke!

Joe

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"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination"
- Oscar Wilde




----Original Message Follows----
From: worldwarfree at riseup.net
To: "atw" <againstthewar at totalserve.co.uk>
CC: matilda at lists.aktivix.org
Subject: Re: [matilda] Respect on the email list
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 06:09:54 -0800 (PST)

atw wrote
One thing that was discussed last night was this list. One thing
everyone agreed on was that we should be more respectful to each other
on the list after heated debates last week and before.

if this was done on consensus it would mean we all agreed as you say as it
was was not everyone was there so in context not all there so not all
agreed

now we talk of being respectful to each other to say joe morris is talking
bollocks is to descibe what he is talking

also to be respectful would mean i have or hold any respect for the likes
of joe morris well i do not, not as individule neither the politics of the
organisation he repersents, the anarchist fedration and  joe moris are at
compleate odds with the working class and their poverty. respect has to be
a two way road, the anarchist fedration and joe morris have to start to
understand then therfor respect the very issue of the working class, of
wich i have little or no faith of happing haveing seen them in action. so,
to say joe morris is talking bollocks is right in this context because at
the end of the day thats all he is speaking to myself and the working
class

0742

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