No, that's fine. What he says is mostly right but there's enough there that I could pick him up on a few things if I needed to. The only major thing I have a concern about is whether it's too easy to label all immigrants as valiant hard workers, and all native unemployed as lazy slobs. Sounds all a bit Daily Mail to me... But a small point to make against an otherwise well written article.
On the topic of loving what you hate, there was a piece on the BBC a week or so ago about a child molester whose work is the standard text for teaching children about music. His daughter is trying to get the books pulled because they were 'targeting' children. Screw it, if they're academically sound, leave 'em there. Caravaggio killed people for heaven's sake, but his art is still sublime...
And anyway, wouldn't the world be boring if you agreed with everything that was in it? What would you rebel against then eh?
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Date: 2007-Sep-13, Thursday 16:34 (UTC)On the topic of loving what you hate, there was a piece on the BBC a week or so ago about a child molester whose work is the standard text for teaching children about music. His daughter is trying to get the books pulled because they were 'targeting' children. Screw it, if they're academically sound, leave 'em there. Caravaggio killed people for heaven's sake, but his art is still sublime...
And anyway, wouldn't the world be boring if you agreed with everything that was in it? What would you rebel against then eh?