[governance] Re: USG on ICANN - no movement here

[Parminder]

> Perhaps cultural norms differ, but around here, attacking straw man 
> arguments that someone else didn't make isn't a tactic that you use if 
> you could have made a real argument instead.

John

(With "around here" you mean 'in the US', right?)

So, you are attacking my culture now. Sorry to say this, but I think you are
losing all sense of basic decency.
 
You may have a case that I am personally doing something undesirable or even
obnoxious,  but what do you mean by "> Perhaps cultural norms differ, but
around here,....". 

You are basically saying that this particular "obnoxious-ness" may be in my
culture.

If I go to some other part of multi-cultural India and say - 'cultural norms
differ, and I don't know how it is in your culture, but in my culture we do
things sensibly and honorably' I am likely to invite mob violence.  

I request IGC members to take note to the above utterance of John Levine,
and give their views on it, before I mention how I characterize it, because
he seems to have friends in high places on this list and I need to guard my
words much more than the regular list posters do. 

I did wait a whole day before I report this, hoping that someone else will. 

Parminder


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Levine [mailto:icggov at johnlevine.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 8:20 PM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Cc: parminder at itforchange.net
> Subject: [governance] Re: USG on ICANN - no movement here
> 
> >Yes, I know John said that it is the ICANN which needs adult supervision
> of
> >the US. But what you are ignoring is that he also said that ---
> developing
> >country governments "in reality . know that ICANN desperately needs the
> >DOC's adult supervision".
> 
> Could you point out where I said anything at all about developing
> country governments?
> 
> Perhaps cultural norms differ, but around here, attacking straw man
> arguments that someone else didn't make isn't a tactic that you use if
> you could have made a real argument instead.
> 
> Once again, I am impressed at the many ways that people find to waste
> time rather than to address governance issues.
> 
> R's,
> John
> 
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