From: Fred Moulton (moulton@moulton.com)
Date: Fri Aug 23 1996 - 23:31:03 MDT
In a recent post, someone wrote:
> Blacks are more stupid than whites.
>I think it is laudable if you accustom people to the
>offensiveness of truth, but be prepared that you may suffer
>some personal damage.
The idea that accustoming people to the offensiveness of truth is a
laudable activity on which I will not comment here. However, I
suggest that using the statement: "Blacks are more stupid than whites."
as an example of a "truth" is at best confusing and at worst very
ill-conceived.
My suggestion is that when thinking of examples of "offensive truth"
to accustom people, examples which refer to oneself might be chosen
which demonstrate more rigor and less ambiguity.
Fred
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