Re: your mail

On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 10:19:00PM -0400, jane craig wheezed something about:
> kendall,

> thousands of people die in deliberate acts of cowardice and cruelty and
"the more immediate concern is the reaction of many americans"?!?  

Is this supposed to be a quote from something I wrote? 

>not one
word about the victims and the families?!?  

I said plenty about them; however, I chose to publish something else first.
So what? Do you demand complete ideological conformity?

>you have a very convoluted way
of looking at the world.  one that i'm glad i will never understand.  

So what is your obsession with me? You will never understand my convoluted
way of looking at the world, you're glad about that, and yet you feel some
need to email your inane questions. How odd.

>and
one that fortunately will always be on the margin.  don't bother to explain.
we've exchanged emails in the past and you often avoid simple answers to
open-ended questions. 

What's the question? Why did I write, in the aftermath of terrorist attcks,
that we should avoid racist responses? I wrote that because I think it's
important and, more crucially, because it's been conspicuously absent from
the responses of all national leaders; in fact, what we get from them
instead, as with Bush, is subtle appeals to racist myths about Arabs.

Is that simple enough for you?

Or maybe you were planning to load up with some of your buddies in your town
and shoot bullets into your nearest mosque?

Kendall Clark