I'm very sorry that when one particular post gave me the willies, I posted back equally briefly and from equally valid personal feelings. Altho I too have the "right" to "free speech," the misunderstandings have only cascaded since then, and my friend Adrien has kindly brought that to my attention.

The ad hominem attacks pointed at me speak for themselves. I should not have allowed anyone to troll me into responding to them.


IMO Mudcat is never the place to really explore sensitive topics except from the viewpoint of helpful advice when an individual has a personal problem that touches on the actual issue. Seen it over and over again.

That is when the Cat's best thinking occurs. Not in threads like this.


I may write a post that covers a lot of ground theoretically, and have done so on a number of other topical threads of late, but I usually know that they will not be read and they will certainly not be understood by most of the readers-- because they are professional information that needs a workshop to cover them which allows space for people to react and then think. They are not "positions," and, as information, they are not the sort of thing that can be conveyed in an academic lecture mode. The Racism/Classism worshop I present, for example, uses Spirituals as a window in on some of the things that are covered.

I write about these topics here sometimes to use them at IRL workshops, where the feelings and the thinking can be given space to occur as they surely will. Most of the time, the participants do not even realize they have been at a workshop until afterwards, when the personal reflection begins to occur.

Mudcat has been useful to me in seeing what the range of feelings are likely to be on any given "hot" topic. I quote it and reference it on a regular basis, as I have indicated in the past.

~Susan