You forgot something about a nutty and/or offensive assertion being “taken out of context”
I remember when I was about to finish college, someone* in the student paper was complaining about all the irrelevant electives on offer, and why doesn’t the university focus on Western philosophy instead of Marxism? I wrote back that that’s why they’re called electives, and god forbid someone should pick an interesting one. (I’d reached a point where, except for two courses, all I had left were electives.) But someone more astute than I pointed out to that writer that Marxism is a Western philosophy.
*I’m remembering the person being a Plan II major; the paper would put the writer’s major in the byline. We had a joke that Plan II meant “‘Plan II’ write bad editorials for the student paper.” (Also, “I haven’t picked a major but I Plan II.”)
P.S. Figured I might as well pile on with the…
