The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #35693   Message #491242
Posted By: InOBU
25-Jun-01 - 07:40 AM
Thread Name: Lori Berenson gets 20 years!
Subject: RE: Lori Berenson gets 20 years!
George George George!
Let's adress the issue and not give into the urge to personalize this. Yes, it is very discouraging to hear folks proclaim proudly their lack of caring. But, address that, these folks don't care becasue they have never been in a position to come to empathise with people in this condition and a great number of people can't empathise in the abstract, or because of personal experience cast people like Lori in in appropriate rolls, like seeing her as another McVigh. If we just say they aren't intelligent, we don't make progress on our conversation. I didn't give up on you, and I think we got to know each other's political history because we got past the steriotypes and insults.
Frankly apathy makes me nuts, but we have to do a better job at spreading empathy to defete apathy.
Cheers all, play nice,
Larry