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 #2 (permalink) Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:19 am 'Genet'? |
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| Jean Genet, the French writer and political activist, I imagine. |
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| #3 (permalink) Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:21 am Who is Genet? |
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| Jean Genet was a famous French pedophile who was also a writer and was involved in politics. Sometimes intellectuals excuse artists for anything they do. |
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| #4 (permalink) Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:16 am Who is Genet? |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| Jean Genet was a famous French pedophile who was also a writer and was involved in politics. Sometimes intellectuals excuse artists for anything they do. |
That's a rather childish response, Jamie. As for forgiveness, I think you'll find it a quite common human trait. Don't you have such a trait? See, for example, how the French police are now forgiven their sins - and not only by intellectuals.
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He worked with Foucault and Sartre to protest police brutality against Algerians in Paris, a problem persisting since the Algerian War of Independence, when beaten bodies were to be found floating in the Seine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Genet |
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| #5 (permalink) Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:39 am Who is Genet? |
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| Molly wrote: |
| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| Jean Genet was a famous French pedophile who was also a writer and was involved in politics. Sometimes intellectuals excuse artists for anything they do. |
That's a rather childish response, Jamie. |
I don't think it's childish to point out that the man was an admitted pederast. |
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| #6 (permalink) Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:40 am Who is Genet? |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| I don't think it's childish to point out that the man was an admitted pederast. |
Nice try. This was childish, a schoolyard response, IMO: "Sometimes intellectuals excuse artists for anything they do". |
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Molly
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| #7 (permalink) Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:46 am Who is Genet? |
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| Molly wrote: |
| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| I don't think it's childish to point out that the man was an admitted pederast. |
Nice try. This was childish, a schoolyard response, IMO: "Sometimes intellectuals excuse artists for anything they do". |
Well, it's quite true. |
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| #8 (permalink) Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:57 am Who is Genet? |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| Well, it's quite true. |
As would be "Mary Davies is big, fat and ugly, na-na-na-na-na!", but it might be better to keep that thought in the confines of the schoolyard, right? :wink: |
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