Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Sailer nails it
Wish I'd said this!
I did recently hit the same general point about the Leninist rule: "Stupefy, stupefy, stupefy. Never allow people to generalize from experience, forbid all thinking." But I wasn't paying attention to the news lately, and didn't stop to apply the same principle to this swimming-pool incident. ¶ 7:37 AM
Last week, there was one of those now-traditional Two Minute Hates in the national media, familiar to people as diverse as James Watson, Don Imus, and Michael Richard. This one was directed at a swim club in suburban Philadelphia, which had agreed to allow an inner city daycare center to use its swimming pool each Monday all summer. But after the first visit by 65 black and Hispanic children, the club hastily changed its mind.
Of course, the swim club was denounced universally for "prejudice," but wouldn't the word "postjudice" be more appropriate? After all, beforehand, the swim club had presumed that hosting 65 inner city children in its pool (two-thirds of which is deep enough to drown in) would be a swell idea, and only then developed an aversion after they had experience with them.
I did recently hit the same general point about the Leninist rule: "Stupefy, stupefy, stupefy. Never allow people to generalize from experience, forbid all thinking." But I wasn't paying attention to the news lately, and didn't stop to apply the same principle to this swimming-pool incident. ¶ 7:37 AM
