[lbo-talk] Make more jails and Let's Lock Up 14% of All Men Who Have Ever Married!

Stephen E Philion philion at hawaii.edu
Tue Oct 24 10:05:53 PDT 2006


Jesse wrote: I believe what Yoshie is doing is what's called "trolling." The essence of her latest argument seems to be that we shouldn't punish crime, including rape, because we don't have large enough prisons. This is a fairly sordid and desperate style of argument.

--Actually she's done a solid job responding to and refuting many of the more bizarre ideas you've floated or endorsed, not least of which was that false accusations don't affect family members. You've never responded to Yoshie's excellent rebuttal of that mistaken belief. You've also entirely ignored other classic instances in which 'recovered' 'memories' become embellished to the point of ludicrousness such as the Vietnam Vets "memories" of being "spat" on. Following your approach to the accusations against Aptheker, we should believe the propaganda of the prowar lobbyists also, since they base their claims of 'abuse' of 'vets' on 'recovered' 'memories'...

Steve

Stephen Philion Assistant Professor Department of Sociology and Anthropology St. Cloud State University St. Cloud, MN

http://stephenphilion.efoliomn2.com/



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