Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing in response to the editorial piece by Justin Danilewitz concerning Crown Heights and its implications for the future political alignment of Jews in America. Danilewitz begins his argument by recounting an incident--the murder of 47 Jews in Kishinev, Russia--which was part of a very real and very long history of anti-Semitism, particularly in Europe. In introducing the example of the Russian pogrom he attempts to link this reprehensible slaughter of Jews to the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. As a result of what he characterizes as black malice toward Jews, he calls...
...This argument would be extremely compelling to me if I were an American Jew--especially given the centuries-old historical pattern of Jewish oppression. Indeed, this argument is intriguing to me as a young black man for many of the same reasons. However, what Danilewitz's argument fails to fully comprehend--and what many in America seem not to want to talk about--is the very real history that also shapes how blacks in America react to various issues and experiences (such the O.J. Simpson trials, the Million Man March, and the Crown Heights incident). Danilewitz's own example...
Last time a Democrat hired a Republican to run the Pentagon, there was no mistaking the Top Gun: "That there could be any argument about his policies is a source of astonishment to [Robert] McNamara. He is utterly convinced of the inevitability of his views. He believes that any problem can be solved by examination of the facts, consideration of the available 'options,' and application of logical decisions...Like no Defense Secretary before him, he has seized control of the Pentagon. Military leaders can offer advice, but McNamara makes the decisions...His love of computers, and his own computerlike mind...
...real benefit of paying would-be volunteers to work is to provide fair opportunity to all Harvard students. In and of itself, this is a strong argument for the program. But it is an altogether separate issue from a program meant as a "literacy initiative...
...comes as no surprise that one argument relied upon heavily by the defendants in the Crown Heights murder was that charges leveled against them were racially motivated. Following in this tradition is the case of O.J. Simpson in which the jurors in the criminal trial apparently reached the similarly striking conclusion that race can be invoked as a credible defense for murder...