Originally Posted by
LA Ute
I think you’re throwing out the baby with a tiny bit of bath water. Shapiro’s hard to take sometimes but the “arsonist” bit was just a figure of speech. The parts I quoted were his good points. For example:
What’s to disagree with there?
The J.J. McCullough piece you link closed with this:
I liked the piece, which I found thought-provoking, but I think the above is a silly bit of reductive thinking. Awful, IMO. I’m not a teacher but if he were a student in my composition class I’d give him an F and make him re-write his piece.