The link you provide does not go to the subject you cite. On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 6:42 PM Dayne Goodwin <[email protected]> wrote:
> *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 (#790): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/790 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
