[lbo-talk] Sowell on "black rednecks"

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Apr 27 11:14:10 PDT 2005


martin wrote:
>
> On Apr 27, 2005, at 8:46 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> > There you go again. Some X is Y. Big deal.
> >
>
> Some is too many when it comes to failure to hold basic principles
> across the broad left constituency, you included. I would have thought
> that you more than many others would have seen the truth in that and
> defended it.
>

I agree. That's why I condemn such slovenly rhetoric as "some x is y" as vigorously in a fellow leftist as I would in a freshman theme. It is extremely important for the left not to encourage such disregard for minimal intellectual standards.

Carrol



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