From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
>
> Ian Murray wrote:
> >
> >
> > But first, let's keep the record straight. The atrocities of 11
> > September were a crime against humanity.
>
> A crime, yes. But a "crime against humanity"? Oh come off it. The
> holocaust was a crime against humanity. The U.S. invasion of
southeast
> asia was a crime against humanity. The ongoing bombing of and
sanctions
> against Iraq is a crime against humanity.
>
> It takes something far more than killing a few thousand people to
> constitute a crime against humanity. Let's maintain some chastity of
> language.
>
> Carrol
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Taken to it's conclusion, "humanity" becomes a floating signifier,
like "national interest"; any social kind can be disaggregated and
decomposed.....
"Mankind no longer exists" [Bruce Sterling]
Ian