Re: #1(2) marxism-digest V1 #307

[dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)]

At 5:43 PM 8/4/95, LeoCasey@xxxxxxx wrote:

>Doug Henwood writes:
>>I've been mulling over just why it is the multiculturalists and Third
>Campists get so >worked up over Bosnia.
>
>Try this one on for size, Dougie. Some people live in a different fucking
>moral universe than you, where the immediacy of mass murder takes precedence
>over ideological rectitude. Maybe with a fuck in it you can grasp the
>message.

In your fevered haste you forgot to quote the following sentence:

>Not that the sight of thousands of
>people dying for debased reasons isn't horrifying - but there are people
>dying all over the place (e.g. Africa, Bedford-Stuyvesant) to much less
>vocalized distress.

I'm sorry I don't live in as sublime a moral universe as you do Leo. Though
I renounced it long ago, my early Catholic training taught me to be highly
suspicious of those like the Pharisees who advertise their moral stature.

Doug

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