Purely out of curiosity...

[Mark Kohut]

He doesn't deserve fiteen million dollars and won't get it. I' m glad he is moving happily enough. 

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> On Dec 11, 2015, at 5:12 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> ...does anybody on the P-List still think Ahmed the Clock Boy is a totally innocent victim of brutally racist teachers who deserves 15 million dollars for the torture of being kept from his mommy and daddy for 85 minutes?
> 
> Just curious if any of my fellow Pynchon fans are as disturbed by the cult-like, knee-jerk, quasi-Pavlovian, ignore-all-contrary-evidence, Social Justice Warrior conga line that has emerged on this topic. 
> 
> Seems to me a lot of my leftier-than-thou friends are acting like Fox News conservatives, only in the ideological equivalent of photo-negative... I mean, I count myself as a proud liberal, but I have to draw the line at fucking lying to myself.
> 
> Mark T.
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