Ethical Diversions

[MalignD at aol.com]

I sent this, apparently, after I was unsubscribed.

<<OK, this is getting tedious.>>
 
 Who besides you, do you think, gives a flying fuck about what you find 
tedious?
 
 <<<My only reservation about that theory is that he seems to have had no 
qualms whatsoever about addressing the Herero genocide in his novels and working 
up fictional characters and scenarios from it. I know I've made the point 
before.>
 
 <A cheap-shot argument would be to say, "Yeah, but how many Hereros are 
running around SoCal and Manhattan Island these days?   I mean, it ain't like some 
Herero kid became a hot-shot filmmaker and grew up to direct Schindler's 
List.">>>
 
 Stated less as a cheap shot, there's probably truth to this.   For whatever 
reason--race is an obvious one--the Herero, Cambodia, China under Mao, what's 
going on in Africa now, pick your atrocity, don't seem to carry the same sense 
of  immoral gravity, at least in the west, and, thus, constrain comment less.
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