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Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun May 8 07:08:26 PDT 2005


Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> [clip]Here's a response from
> Raven Strega.]


> >Lots of people have substance abuse problems. Some of them are sex workers.
> >Others work on Wall Street, or at McDonalds, or in your local independent
> >bookstore. Some people who sruggle with addiction are teachers and doctors.

In other words, articles, posts, etc. grounded in the proposition "Some X is Y" without further careful specification are really, really vicious and stupid.

Some leftists are X.

Some sex workers are X.

Both equally vicious.

Carrol



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