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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (336740)5/7/2007 11:46:20 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1572712
 
One of the true failings of blogging is that too often people take the most ungenerous view possible of someone else’s writing. Jumping from Sowell’s brief hypothetical (about “worsening” problems and whether “the day may yet come”) to saying that he is “openly hoping for military coups” is an example of this. A fair reading of Sowell is that he is openly hoping that the “degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentia” will stop “worsening.”

Look. I don't who this Sowell is and what he's written in the past but when you live in one of the most important democracies in the world and suggest that maybe a military coup may be needed to clean up its problems, he has stepped beyond what I consider to be reasonable dialogue. If he wants to make such an outrageous statement at a time when there are many people worried about the state of this democracy, then he needs to expect to take some flack.
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