Fw: [lbo-talk] Paranoid Styles, Soviet and American (was Hamas "a project of Shin Bet")

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Sat Oct 21 13:06:17 PDT 2006


Jesse Lemisch wrote:


>
> When will Yoshie read the book, and determine that Bettina was three --
> three years old -- when Herbert began playing "choo-choo with her? Of
> course it would be paranoia to talk about power differences betwen an adult
> male and a three year old female child. Right?
>

The point of the research that Yoshie cited doesn't seem to be getting through. You simply accept that "Herbert began playing choo-choo" with her at age 3 because she had a vivid memory of that as an adult. What we know is that she has a vivid memory account; we can't say with any certainty what Herbert did or didn't do to her solely on the basis of this memory account. Your faith in the accuracy of human memory is unwarranted. --And I should stress that this is a claim based on a veritable mountain of research on memory. It is not, as you falsely suggest, a brazen ideological ploy to subjugate women.

Miles



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