On Jan 14, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net
> >wrote:
> Chinua Achebe, father of modern African literature, has long argued
> that
>> Joseph Conrad was a racist. Caryl Phillips, an admirer of both
>> writers,
>> disagrees.
> That seems like kind of a silly debate. How many European
> aristocrats of the Victorian era would we not consider somehow
> racist today?
This is way beyond silly. The word "racist" as used here and everywhere else seems to have degenerated into nothing but an empty insult. Any usage of the term "racism" or "racist" not accompanied by a clear concise definition makes the effusion of which it is part unworthy of notice.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos