Quote from: 71 dB on Today at 08:51:02 AMAll we have to do is turn this into politics and religion...
Quote from: Ganondorf on Today at 03:40:00 AMI read that Zola work some time ago. Zola is a magnificent evocative writer to be sure but I must also say that his male protagonists tend to be swines. If Zola even half-heartedly agrees with the kind of treatment his female characters receive in his books, then he must be the ultimate sexist.Entirely possible. I would only counter by saying that my impression of the four or five Zola novels I've read is that he tends to give his men enough rope to hang themselves. Without attempting to psychoanalyse someone long dead, it seems to me that Zola doesn't depict characters like Mouret as noble, only as having the cunning to succeed in a society which generally is shown to be rotten and inhospitable.
Quote from: Daverz on Today at 02:22:57 PMI agree that Hurwitz is intolerant of dissent in his comment section (he banned me years ago), but this is a stupid example. There would be no benefit to anyone in allowing political comments on Israel/Palestine under a music CD review. It would just turn into a cesspool very quickly.
Quote from: (poco) Sforzando on Today at 12:51:30 PMHerman is exactly right. Hurwitz's biggest flaw is his intolerance of disagreement. There are no true "discussions" on his forum because one can never tell how many dissenting comments have been deleted. At times he'll devote an entire video to ridiculing someone who disagrees with him.
A more secure person would welcome opposing viewpoints, but disagree with Dave and you're on the outs. Example: he was reviewing Levit's recent Mendelssohn disc inspired by the October 7 attacks, but Hurwitz has decided that politics has nothing to do with music (which is of course nonsense), and that if anyone were to make a political point in the comments, they would be banned from his site. He's attacked me a number of times, which is why I no longer participate on his forum.
Quote from: DavidW on Today at 12:54:24 PMYou're really taking patient gaming to another level! And I have a friend is still playing ps3 games. That is nothing! You're still in the 90s.
Quote from: Karl Henning on Today at 01:01:07 PMNot I, surely. Especially knowing how negligible is the chance that he'd address any contrary thesis.
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