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IP: last of Andrew Sullivan and Ken Layne react to the Robert Fisk incident
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:24:17 -0500
From: "John Fulton" <jfulton () westcapital com> To: "David Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu> http://andrewsullivan.com/ ...[Fisk] goes on: There were all the Afghan men and boys who had attacked me who should never have done so but whose brutality was entirely the product of others Notice that phrase whose brutality was entirely the product of others. What can that possibly mean? Were not talking about extenuating circumstances things that might help us understand or contextualize the hatred of one people for another. Were talking about a priori moral absolution. Take this passage: Goddamit, I said and tried to bang my fist on my side until I realised it was bleeding from a big gash on the wrist the mark of the tooth I had just knocked out of a man's jaw, a man who was truly innocent of any crime except that of being the victim of the world. No, Mr. Fisk, that man who attacked you was not truly innocent of any crime. You were. He was not the victim of the world. You were the victim of a thieving, violent mob... *** http://kenlayne.com/ Sunday, December 09, 2001 Here's the Long Version of the exciting Fisk incident, in which Fisk reveals that he was mugged: "Then another kid tried to grab my bag. It contained my passport, credit cards, money, diary, contacts book, mobile phone. I yanked it back and put the strap round my shoulder. Justin and I crossed the road and someone punched me in the back." You have to read about a hundred whining paragraphs about the Evil of the West before you get to the actual explanation of what happened. His car broke down. Some thugs tried to take his bag. He put up some kind of feeble struggle, and they beat him up. The smart reader who sent me this link wrote, "As I thought, he just got mugged." Yep ... white boy breaks down in a bad neighborhood. The End.
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