[R-G] Re: [NYCAnti-War] Lerner's redbaiting campaign

[Don DeBar]

Hey, I'd like to speak, too. Am I entitled? If not, how does Lerner differ
from me?

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Subject: [NYCAnti-War] Lerner's redbaiting campaign


> Lou Paulsen, among others,  asks if I would vote for Lerner to speak now
> that he has gone into the Wall Street Journal etc. to denounce the antiwar
> movement.
>
> No.  By such actions, Lerner has excluded himself.  The issue, as one
> concerning Lerner, has become one of his resisiting his redbaiting and
> anti-semitism baiting of the antiwar movement.r
>
> Did the four coalitions adopt this  standard and reject Lerner as a
speaker
> because they foresaw he would turn against the movement? I don't think so
> and I think it would have been a mistake to act on this expectation.
>
> I  continue to hold that the standard was exclusionary and should not be
> applied in the future.
>
> Today's red-baiting attack must be dealt with as what it is.
>
> But I also hope that being "white hot" with anger at Lerner this time
around
> doesn't lead to similar mistakes next  time around. The standard adopted
was
> politically exclusionary and Lerner's not being invited ON THIS BASIS  was
a
> mistake, period.
>
> If he goes on this kind of campaign against the movement without any
serious
> attempt to resolve the matter within the movement, it simply shows what
his
> former antiwar position was worth.
>
> For me, this question never revolved around an assessment of Lerner or
> whether he should speak.  The statements of the four coalitions about the
> standard they had adopted, and applied in Lerner's case,  seemed wrong and
> politically harmful  to me and that remains my view.  My concern was that
> this standard -- which will only have harmful consequences and didn't have
> any useful ones in this case -- could become normal.   This should not
> happen.
> Fred Feldman
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