[stylist] Political pieces and the list

Tue Jan 18 16:50:46 UTC 2011

Judith,
I hope you will re read Robert's post. The way I read  it (and if I'm 
wrong, Robert, please straighten me out), you can write about and post 
writings about whatever you like including political issues. He suggests 
that, like material with strong language, violence and explicit sex, 
that you alert the reader through the subject line that you're posting a 
political piece. The discussions which follow, should be kept to matters 
of how that composition is tructured, how its elements work to convey a 
point and other matters of improving the craft of writing. My 
understanding is that in responding, the rest of us should not engage in 
a political debate about the merits of the points in the composition. 
There's another list for that, and people are free to contact one 
another off-list. I think I was in part to blame for the discussion of 
your piece getting out of hand, since in my first post about it, I 
ranted from my perspective as an independent. I tried to keep it short, 
but nonetheless it was inappropriate for this list. I will endeavor to 
avoid such things in the future.
Donna

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On 1/18/2011 11:23 AM, Judith Bron wrote:
> Running the risk of being banished I think that when ousting all 
> political writing because people can't agree we are running a risk.  
> Some of the best writing done today is through editorials.  No one is 
> going to write an article about the benefits of chocolate ice cream 
> vs. vanilla, but scientists are coming up with health benefits to 
> chocolate.  Whoops!  There I go again!  If you are going to limit any 
> "political" thought to blindness issues and the benefits of NFB over 
> ACB which I can't buy, what you are doing is putting any thinking 
> process in a very narrow tunnel in which no one can grow.  I'm 
> banished, Judith
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacobson, Shawn D" 
> <Shawn.D.Jacobson at hud.gov>
> To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 8:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Political pieces and the list
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>> Whenever I hear that we need to not write "political" work, I flash 
>> back to reading Fehrenheit 451, unfortunately a prophetic work of 
>> science fiction in which people were so afraid of offending others 
>> with their writing that the only thing produced was mindless pap.
>>
>> I was taught that "politics" was the art of determining who gets 
>> what, when, where, and how.  Thus, when we write to advocate for 
>> blindness issues than we are engaging in "political" writing.
>>
>> Much good science fiction is about social commentary concerning where 
>> we are going as a society; this is "political" writing to and I hope 
>> that if I write such stories I can share them with the group.
>>
>> Not a sermon, just a thought. Smile and God bless.
>> Shawn
>>
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>> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>> On Behalf Of LoriStay at aol.com
>> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 5:24 PM
>> To: newmanrl at cox.net; stylist at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Political pieces and the list
>>
>> It would seem to me this is a writers' list, in which we deal with the
>> problems of writing.   Yes, there were some technical problems in 
>> Judith's piece
>> which have been addressed, and that is fine.   However, the fact that 
>> the
>> subject was political does somewhat violate the limits of this list.
>>
>> I realize you may not all agree with me.   However, I am hoping that 
>> we can
>> come to a compromise;   Let's keep   politics off limits for now.   If a
>> piece is political when it is presented, please note at the beginning 
>> that the
>> content is political, but the piece is presented for grammatical,
>> structural and punctuational feedback rather than political agreement or
>> disagreement.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Lori
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