Re: Wow!
knowknot@mindspring.com wrote:
Or that the poster above (and the others who have contributed to the parallel thread here characterized as Bennett’s supposed “Racism”) disagree with what, quite obviously, was Bennett’s actual statement — namely, that that ignoring nuance and complexity and instead extracting as a “sole purpose” an aim (here: such as “reduc[ing] crime”) risks reaching “ridiculous” and “represhensible” conclusions (such as recommending that “you could abort every black baby in this country”)?
Wow indeed. What’s your fucking point? That Bennett’s remark was some exercise in Swiftian irony?
Doug