[lbo-talk] My Letter To CH

[Gar Lipow]

I've always had the opinion (not an intellectual opinion, but a strong
emotional conviction) that at the very least if you were going to piss
on someones grave you should at least wait until the grass is green on
it. That mostly the recently dead get a partial pass , if for no other
reason, the feelings of their survivors. There are exceptions. I don't
hold this opinion absolutely. But (again in my opinion, not backed by
any reasoning) the exceptions should be really rare.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 16, 2011, at 2:54 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
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>> At 11:38 AM 12/16/2011, // ravi wrote:
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>>> Surely it is not that you think the rest of the world should celebrate or tolerate Hitchens because he was sweet to you?
>>
>> He was a friend of some people here and they deserve our condolences.
>
> Aside from taking some personal offense at the hostility, it's also rather one-dimensional. The guy was complicated. He did many good things in his life, and many awful ones too. His death is a good occasion for reflecting on human complexity. His grave isn't one that should be pissed on.
>
> Doug
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