Re: Rand Simberg's excellent article is long

From: Christopher M. Jones (christopher.m.jones_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/12/04 

Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:46:01 -0500

Pat Flannery wrote:
> Christopher M. Jones wrote:
>> Seen it. Didn't like it much. But if deriving humor
>> from tragedy is a sin then there is almost certainly a
>> special circle of hell which bears the label "Pat
>> Flannery".
>
> I gotten some criticism in regards to my writing before, but I'm pretty
> sure you are the first person to condenm me to perdition's fires, it's
> nice to know that you care.

Note the if-then construction. I'm not damning you, you're
daming you, apparently.

>> None of this seems like anything substantive
>> enough to earn either Simberg or "Iowahak" the 'racist'
>> label. Perhaps if they had made light of turning
>> firehoses on black civil rights protestors you would
>> have a better case...
>
> Wait a second...that old posting! There was a good reason that the 60's
> civil rights protesters were met with firehoses!:
[snip]

Precisely. How is it that you deserve the benefit of
the doubt on racism when discussing, humorously, the
use of firehouses against civil rights protestors yet
Rand Simberg does not receive any similar benefit?

For what it's worth I do not think either you or
Simberg is a racist, and that assessment has nothing
to do with the degree to which I might agree with
either his or your ideologogies.