Re: [OT]: May Day
On Tuesday 03 May 2016 14:22:26 Piyavkin wrote:
> On 03.05.2016 02:21, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > …
> > So it is all a bit circular!! But I find the concepts of "International
> > Workers Day" and "the proletariat" intrinsically unpleasant. I am in
> > sympathy with Eric Blair (aka George Orwell). It is as wrong to murder
> > someone for being an aristo as it is to murder him for being a peasant.
>
> Oh, my!..
>
>
> I've sent Hello and best wishes on occasion to fellow people. All that
> was about expression of solidarity. And intended to be lean and short,
> like: a) have a nice day! b) have a nice day too; c) done. In case
> someone may be irritated by relatively irrelevant posts or just not
> interested the topic was marked as [OT] for filtering purposes (Subject
>
> : contains : [OT] --> Delete from POP Server).
>
> I've received 2 types of responses:
> 1. People have sent their best wishes to me in return (mostly in
> private, because many are already too terrorized to express their
> opinion openly).
> 2. Some others on the basis of «deep» linguistic analysis have detected
> here some presence of Nazi and, out of a blue, bloody intention to
> murder (by best wishes, I guess).
>
> What's wrong with you, guys?
>
>
> Best regards,
> Dmitry Piyavkin
That was sent off-list and should not have been quoted here. Presumably Dan
forwarded it to you.
Solidarity? With whom? Oh, yes, The Workers.
Read the history of the French Revolution. Or the Stalinist purges.
Politics does not belong here, but nor do ad hominem attacks.
Lisi
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