Re: Re: Wilde Socialist's Hard Labour (was Re: Oscar Wilde: was O Happy Day)

[Doyle Saylor <djsaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
    JKS comments about Wilde that it was his fault that he was imprisoned,

JKS,
It was his own damn fault. He shouldn't have prosecuted his erstwhile lover
Alfred Douglas's dad for defamation for calling him an invert or whatever
delicate word the the old fraud used. He was, of course, an invert; everyone
knew it, and no one except Douglas' dad really cared. Btw Wilde was
prosecuted by Sir Edward Carson, an ancestor of a high school friend of
mine, later a Village Voice rock writer. --jks

Doyle
I have the greatest trouble with this sort of statement.  I cannot accept
however mistaken the course taken in a legal tactic it was for Wilde, that
it was Wilde's fault that he was imprisoned for "inversion".

I believe this falls under the title of blaming the victim.  If I was
arrested and imprisoned for homosexuality in an entrapment by a vice squad
and then I tried to deny my homosexuality to dodge being sent up for years
in prison am I at fault for the law?

I have no desire whatsoever to debate this judgement call of Wilde's.  I
protest strenuously this comment.
Doyle Saylor