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it's a great article. here's her speech http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n06/mary-beard/the-public-voice-of-women On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > Interesting profile on British classics scholar Mary Beard. > > For all her openness to interaction, Beard has found it useful to respond > to many of her critics personally and privately—to take the brawl inside. > An early online experience was instructive. Just after the terrorist > attacks of September 11, 2001, Beard was asked by the London Review of > Books to contribute her thoughts. She argued, astringently, that it served > little purpose to decry the attacks as “cowardly,” or to go no further in > analyzing the motivations of the perpetrators than to call them terrorists: > “There are very few people on the planet who devise carnage for the sheer > hell of it. They do what they do for a cause; because they are at war.” The > attacks needed to be understood not merely as an atrocity but as a response > to Western foreign policy, and she alluded to a common sentiment in her > community—“that, however tactfully you dress it up, the United States had > it coming.” She received angry e-mails from correspondents who understood > her to have callously suggested that the workers in the Twin Towers > deserved to die. > > full: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/01/troll-slayer > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
