Watts article

[Malignd]

<<<<He never says that all whites are well-off.>>

He says whites have mostly chosen and can afford. 
Whites.  He doesn’t say “some” or ”wealthy” or “middle
class” whites.

<<But even as a poor white you're not black.
Middle-class neighbors won't put their garbage to your
front door, the cops won't call you "boy" or "nigger"
and most important, you're not as easily killed as a
young black. Go look at the statistics how many blacks
are waiting for their execution.>>

You and not Pynchon are saying this.  (And put their
garbage to your front door?  You think middle class
whites drive to Watts and leave their garbage on
people's steps?)

<<"While the white culture is concerned with various
forms of systematized folly--the economy of the area
in fact depending on it--the black culture is stuck
pretty much with basic realities like disease, like
failure, violence and death, which the whites have
mostly chosen--and can afford--to ignore."

He says here explicitly ("mostly") in this brilliantly
formulated sentence(which is why it's on my
favorites-list of the Watts-article) that not all
whites have chosen or can afford to ignore those facts
of reality, doesn't he?>>

No.  “Mostly” modifies “chosen” not “whites,” so he’s
not saying what you believe.  He’s saying that for the
most part (mostly) they have so chosen, and that they
CAN afford it.  And even if he were saying what you
mistakenly think he's saying, it’s still nonsensical. 
Money doesn’t free one from disease or death. 





		
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