Reply To: Alsop and Schwartz debate

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I don’t think anybody is saying ‘all or nothing’ (except maybe Alsop).I find that Americans like to reduce everything to , “well sometimes, and some people” – you can’t learn ANYTHING when this is introduced into a conversation- it is a complete conversations stopper, like “I don’t recall,” in a Senate heargin…I have an aquaintance who always does that..So take a minute to say, Oh, I will never accuse ‘everyone’ of being one way, and just go on back to the subject at hand…
Unless you are a real jerk or non-observant, OF COURSE it is not everybody doing one thing..but agree that this is true about the human race, and move on to the more interesting generalities..
Please?
(and we do n ot need to go to the extreme of Glenn Becks, who is also non-factual… it is possible to have a conversation with generalities without being a racist, or being untrue..don’t you think you can say what was going on in Stalinist Russia, with the sculptures? Can’t we analyze the society that produced this? Gloria Steinem thinks that Nazi Germany partly happened becasue of an extrememly patriachal familyl structure…Now that is a fun opinon…!!!)