[lbo-talk] Christian Parenti responds

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Apr 7 18:44:23 PDT 2009


On Apr 7, 2009, at 9:35 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:


> i couldn't view that -- bad connex or something -- but it'd be nice
> to have an explanation of what he meant by it.

Can't speak for him, but it's pretty hard to read past a lede like this:


> I somewhat disappointed in the lack of imagination on the part of most
> responders to my proposal for elimination of the prison system. It
> does
> bear out, however, the failure of most to grasp what social
> construction
> means in material actuality (or at least a failure to incorporate that
> understanding into their oridnary thinking). The comments in the
> thread
> were, consequently, quite banal. It sort of bothers me to be
> forceed to
> spell out the obvious, but I guess the intellectual and imaginative
> limitions of posters to this list make it necessary.

I read something like that and I just want to say "fuck you!" and hit the delete key. Which is what I did.

Doug



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