Steve
Stephen Philion Lecturer/PhD Candidate Department of Sociology 2424 Maile Way Social Sciences Bldg. # 247 Honolulu, HI 96822
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Chris Brooke wrote:
> >On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 at 6:16pm Ian Murray wrote:
> >
> >Here's a nice onse from the Letters section of the
> >18-oct-2001 LRB responding to a collection of short essays
> >on 9-11:
> >
> >
> >When I visit England sometime I'm going to stop by your
> >offices and shove your loony leftist faces into some dog
> >shit.
> >
> >Todd Ojala
> >bread at denizen.net
>
> He recanted a little, though, in the following LRB
> <http://www.lrb.co.uk/newletts.htm>:
>
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>
> I would like to apologise for the e-mail I sent not long after New
> York and Washington DC were attacked (Letters, 18 October). You are
> in no danger of me visiting your office and doing anything remotely
> violent with dog-doo. My e-mail was sent in a fit of passion. People
> I know in New York were affected by the attack, but luckily not
> killed or injured. Imagine how you might feel if thousands of
> Londoners were blown to bits, and then intellectuals in America or
> France immediately wrote about how England should have seen it
> coming, because of its past history of colonialism, repression etc,
> etc. This doesn't excuse my comment, just helps explain it. You
> published it partly ironically, I'm sure, and partly to reconfirm
> your readers' views of Americans as idiots. Well, I was idiotic with
> sadness and anger. Even though I don't usually agree with
> publications like the London Review of Books or the Nation, I am glad
> they are around.
>
> Todd Ojala
> Minneapolis
>
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>
> Chris
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