[lit-ideas] Re: Place of lynchings? Stats and intelligent discussion thereon not PC kneejerking

  • From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 23:16:17 -0700 (PDT)

I understood anyway that the discussion was basically
about Europe and that the reference to "old deep
South" was meant to give us a quick and vivid mental
picture of what we don't Europe to become, and so on.

Is there such a thing as "statistical fundamentalism"
? O.K.


--- Judith Evans <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> so you'll be voting BNP today?
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Donal McEvoy" <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 2:54 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Place of lynchings? Stats
> and intelligent
> discussion thereon not PC kneejerking
> 
> 
> > Maybe I should offer something specific: what are
> the chances
> statistically
> > if you are black in America of
> > a) being killed by a white lynch-mob
> > b) being killed by another black person or group
> of blacks?
> >
> > Choose any year you like. Argue that b) only
> happens because of a) etc.
> > But waken up and smell the coffee.
> >
> >
> > Donal
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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