On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 7:12 AM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:
> At 09:44 PM 4/7/2009, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> 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 read something like that and I just want to say "fuck you!" and hit
>> the delete key. Which is what I did.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>
>
> heh. ok. but certainly he must be familiar with Davis's work and her
> concepts of abolition democracy and restorative justice. I'm guessing he has
> something more than a derisive response to that, since she doesn't really
> put it that way. she doesn't say that people lack imagination, though she
> does point out in that one about her brother's college paper from 1968 or
> so, that things we "in the air" then, which is one reason why people lack
> imagination
>
> IOW, if you listen to her carefully, you can tell that she occasionally
> *does* suggest, just as CC did, that people lack imagination. I was
> irritated yesterday because it became clear from the discussion that few
> people had actually listened to what she had to say for if they had, they
> wouldn't have imagined that prison abolitionism has something to do with
> getting rid of all prisons. they wouldn't ask ignorant questions about what
> to do with John Wayne Gaycy (sp?). yes: because I'm a conceited asshole, I
> *do* get annoyed with people who have shitloads to say but can't be bothered
> actually reading what's under consideration. they just drag out their ideas
> that they've always had and wank over them in public.
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