Alleged racist comments

RobinRead@aol.com
Sun, 26 Feb 1995 16:33:33 -0600

Hello ? Irony, anyone ? While I don't lay claim to any special understanding
of Story's thinking, his comments, which I quote below, are clearly ironic, a
device he uses in an attempt to make an excellent point. I find it
unfortunate that a by-product of the Left having fallen apart in recent years
is a complete loss of understanding of the usefulness of humor/irony/sarcasm
in presenting a viewpoint.

<<In response to the post that claimed that critics of the SOA are biased
and then went on to discuss military behavior - I disagree that the
problem is with the racially and culturally inferior Latino officers
having a behavior problem that a good reform school program down in
Georgia could fix by teaching them to behave more like dry academics -
the torture is done calculatingly to achieve a political purpose that
serves US interests. The entire argument that the pattern of torture is
a behavior problem is racist.>>