[lbo-talk] Wow!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Oct 1 18:11:28 PDT 2005


knowknot at mindspring.com wrote:


>Or that the poster above (and the others who have contributed to the
>parallel thread here characterized as Bennett's supposed "Racism")
>disagree with what, quite obviously, was Bennett's actual statement
>-- namely, that that ignoring nuance and complexity and instead
>extracting as a "sole purpose" an aim (here: such as "reduc[ing]
>crime") risks reaching "ridiculous" and "represhensible" conclusions
>(such as recommending that "you could abort every black baby in this
>country")?

Wow indeed. What's your fucking point? That Bennett's remark was some exercise in Swiftian irony?

Doug



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