[lbo-talk] Christian Parenti responds

Marv Gandall marvgandall at videotron.ca
Tue Apr 7 19:06:56 PDT 2009


Doug writes:


> 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.
============================== It's Carrol. I chuckled.



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