Category: Praise and Blame
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On Blaming the Victim
In the entry immediately 'south' of this one, I engaged in some victim-blaming. Is it ever justified? I say it is. As you might expect, I have an article on this very topic over at the Stack.
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People and Their Works
This from a reader: Your comment about Husserl's picture on your wall reminded me of a line from my notes: "I try to admire works but never people, as people invariably let you down." It's, I think, a line from Peter Hitchens. People regularly, though not invariably, let one down. True. But being a person,…
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Bloomberg Blames the Victim!
Here: As the financial crisis first began to strangle American homeowners, Michael Bloomberg, then the mayor of New York, identified a scapegoat. Bloomberg didn’t blame the banks for handing out subprime mortgages; he blamed the consumers who’d applied for them. On an August 2007 broadcast of “The John Gambling Show” on WABC, Bloomberg first aired…