@HeerJeet @DougHenwood Not David Mamet! He thinks Sowell is "our greatest contemporary philosopher."
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Replying to @robmickey
@robmickey@DougHenwood Our greatest contemporary philosopher who allows us to justify our belief that blacks have only themselves to blame.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@robmickey I'm normally not a big fan of TNC but he's no Sowell!3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @DougHenwood
@DougHenwood@HeerJeet Of course not! Not my point at all. Jeet and I are claiming only that they are deployed by others in a similar way.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @robmickey
@robmickey@HeerJeet What I liked about his piece is that trials make for bad politics.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @DougHenwood
@DougHenwood@HeerJeet Yep--bad on lots of different dimensions.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @robmickey
@robmickey@DougHenwood Agree with TNC on this. Perhaps larger point: don't expect moral justice from the law. Law is about something else.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@robmickey it was too easy to create reasonable doubt in this case - which doesn't mean that everything about it wasn't horrible2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @DougHenwood
@DougHenwood@robmickey That's the horror here: if you kill the only other witness to the event, you've created reasonable doubt.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@robmickey too many guns, too many fucked-up laws1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@DougHenwood @robmickey This case (but also many others) really does make USA seem like a Hobbesian state of nature.
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