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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (13859)	5/21/2001 12:46:28 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Your scenario has a lot of assumptions which may or may not be true. Let's look at it this way. Assume that a government official has an interest in, say, Shakespeare, and invites whoever on his staff wants to come read and discuss a passage from one of the plays to start off the morning. Assume that nobody on his staff sees anything at all wrong with this, that some come, some don't, but there's no sense at all that those who can't stand Shakespeare are in any way harmed by not showing up. Assume that political enemies try to make a big thing of this man studying a dead white male instead of committing his studies to a living black female author. Assume that a liberal newspaper takes on a crusade to try to make something sinister out of something which is not a problem at all with the official or any of his staff. Neither of us knows enough facts to know which of our scenarios is closer to the reality.