Comments on: Apparently the books I sent to Iraq were a waste. . . http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2008/05/apparently-the-books-i-sent-to-iraq-were-a-waste.html thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:14:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: S Andrew Swann http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2008/05/apparently-the-books-i-sent-to-iraq-were-a-waste.html#comment-327 S Andrew Swann Mon, 19 May 2008 16:29:00 +0000 http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2008/05/apparently-the-books-i-sent-to-iraq-were-a-waste.html#comment-327 Welcome.<br/><br/>As far as King goes, I'm not doing all the hand wringing about his ethics/morality/intelligence et al. I'll leave that to the right-wing bloggers. What annoys me is that it exposes a particular elitist prejudice that he doesn't even realize is a prejudice.<br/><br/>There's a large class of people who would be appalled as globally maligning the intellectual aptitude of people based on race, or gender, but look at doing so based on geography (the South), social class (folks shopping at Wal Mart), or occupation (military service) as no big deal. Welcome.

As far as King goes, I’m not doing all the hand wringing about his ethics/morality/intelligence et al. I’ll leave that to the right-wing bloggers. What annoys me is that it exposes a particular elitist prejudice that he doesn’t even realize is a prejudice.

There’s a large class of people who would be appalled as globally maligning the intellectual aptitude of people based on race, or gender, but look at doing so based on geography (the South), social class (folks shopping at Wal Mart), or occupation (military service) as no big deal.

]]> By: cgoo http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2008/05/apparently-the-books-i-sent-to-iraq-were-a-waste.html#comment-326 cgoo Mon, 19 May 2008 07:34:00 +0000 http://www.sandrewswann.com/blog/2008/05/apparently-the-books-i-sent-to-iraq-were-a-waste.html#comment-326 Hey there, just stumbled here ;) I don't mean to defend Mr. King, as I do not know his true intentions for what he said. But I take what he said as more of a commentary on how much it must suck to be poorly educated; not that our army is necessarily filled with illiterates, but that people with nowhere else to go are likely to go anywhere that will take them. Hey there, just stumbled here ;) I don’t mean to defend Mr. King, as I do not know his true intentions for what he said. But I take what he said as more of a commentary on how much it must suck to be poorly educated; not that our army is necessarily filled with illiterates, but that people with nowhere else to go are likely to go anywhere that will take them.

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