Re: Offending People's Minds

Fred Moulton (moulton@moulton.com)
Fri, 23 Aug 1996 22:31:03 -0700


In a recent post, someone wrote:

> Blacks are more stupid than whites.

>I think it is laudable if you accustom people to the
>offensiveness of truth, but be prepared that you may suffer
>some personal damage.

The idea that accustoming people to the offensiveness of truth is a
laudable activity on which I will not comment here. However, I
suggest that using the statement: "Blacks are more stupid than whites."
as an example of a "truth" is at best confusing and at worst very
ill-conceived.

My suggestion is that when thinking of examples of "offensive truth"
to accustom people, examples which refer to oneself might be chosen
which demonstrate more rigor and less ambiguity.

Fred