Re: Brian Kernighan, maybe I'm not worthy, maybe I'm scum

On Dec 29, 11:20 am, spinoza1111 <spinoza1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mike Godwinas a "libertarian" is uncomfortable about the Hitlers he
has enabled by on the one hand implying that "anything goes", that no
external constraints shall be placed on people, and on the other hand
requiring norms to be repeatedly negotiated by people completely
inadequate to the task.

I'm always charmed to discover that someone claims to have access to
my mental states and yet manages to get so many of them wrong. I could
write an essay just on the ill-chosen words ("libertarian,"
"uncomfortable," "enabled," etc.), but I leave the full deconstruction
of "spinoza" and his comments as an exercise for other readers.

I will say that, to me, the choice of "lower middle class" as a
pejorative reveals much about the speaker. (Why add the "lower" to
"middle class" if not to imply something antidemocratic?)


--Mike

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