What makes a Columbia professor of English and comparative literature qualified to decide that those of us who call thugs thugs are “know nothings”?
Bite me, egghead.
However, in light of what we heard last night, I feel that the Ferguson incident is instructive to America in a larger sense. The key element in the Brown-Wilson encounter was not any specific action either man took — it was the preset hostility to the cops that Brown apparently harbored. And that hostility was key because it was indeed totally justified. <<
Occam’s Razor is pretty specific. The simplest explanation that is the most instructive is the best explanation. The moment the currently deceased person made the choice to commit a robbery and then did it, that action set the stage for his death. Other explanations could possibly have some merit, but are orders of magnitude weaker, as are his. To ignore this is proof that he unaware of the application of rationality or logic. Maybe he is good in a book club discussion? Fiction of course.
DK