*U.S. troops buried Iraqi foes alive. Army says division buried thousands of Iraqi soldiers in trench fighting.* by Newsday, Fort Riley Kansas Baltimore Sun, Sept. 12, 1991 https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-09-12-1991255203-story.html
On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 4:14 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not familiar with this Agamben (gasp!) but am fairly convinced that > the assertion about mass disposal of plague victims is transparent > nonsense. > > The inconvenient dead have frequently been shoveled into pits, dumped, and > incinerated *en masse*, whether their piles are the result of pandemic > disease, warfare, or simply good old-fashioned mass murder. Only a > second-or-third-tier European philosopher could convince himself that this > is not true solely on the basis of a few newspaper articles and the art of > introspection. > > There is IMO no factual basis for anything Agamben appears to have said > about the supposed barbaric conspiracy behind mask-wearing, social > isolation, and the other measures countries have been trying to take > against the COVID-19 pandemic. The fact that Italy has appointed a > no-doubt-piggy business executive to head up its COVID response hardly > qualifies as evidence of a conspiracy if that is what Agamben is > promoting. The ruling class sticks to its trusted servants--this is class > warfare, not conspiracy. > > As to suppression of dissent across the board, I am not familiar with the > Italian situation recently so can't comment, but this certainly hasn't > stopped BLM in the United States--nor the right wing either. > > More falsehoods occur in the following Agamben paragraph, quoted in the > *Times* article: > > How could we have accepted, in the name of a *risk* that we couldn’t even > quantify, not only that the people who are dear to us, and human beings > more generally, should have to die alone but also — and this is something > that had never happened before in all of history from Antigone to today — > that their corpses should be burned without a funeral? > > 1) It seems to me that the risks involved with COVID-19 are eminently > quantifiable and have been quantified to the extent that accurate data have > been made available despite the efforts of deniers like Agamben who, again > at least in this country, are definitely wielding great power, do not wish > the facts to emerge for political reasons, and have been eminently > successful in preventing adequate public health measures on the grounds > that they are based on a hoax and intended to to suppress truth. > > 2) Mass burial or incineration of corpses has "never before happened in > all of history."? This is a big lie and preposterous on the face of it. > Maybe he's only talking about the funerals during pandemics--this is still > drivel. Among other things, that raises the question of why, given this > "philospher's" sweeping perspective he suddenly limits his scope so > drastically. > > To call this nonsense a waste of time hardly does justice to its obvious > disingenuity. Apparently nobody ever dares talk back to this son of a > bitch. Why, COVID is a conspiracy to cancel him alone! > _._,_._,_ > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#788): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/788 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76367830/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES<br />#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.<br />#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.<br />#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
