[lbo-talk] Prisons and The Left

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 12:22:17 PDT 2009


On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:

No one should really want
> living among us, for example, the kind of people created by employment
> as prison or jail staff.

Y'know, I have lived among them, and they really aren't that bad.

This peculiar belief among some leftists, that people who do nasty things in the course of their work must, by logical consequence, be nasty people, never ceases to amaze me in its naivete.

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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