Posted by walter
on November 2, 2009, 2:09 pm, in reply to "Would anyone here want to write for a paper that continually told us that black people are... "
Well not if it was to debate the price of butter. But maybe, if it was to call for a conference to challenge racism, in the climate of your fictitious example.
It seems extreme to think only of the paper, as if you're only writing to do them a favour. I think the decision also depends who is being written to, and what is the message.
The key question is surely: Is the (inevitable) compromise worthwhile?
I think David has clearly spelled out his reasoning. He has recognized that some compromise would be necessary, reckoned he could still produce a message that was worthwhile, and factored in the number of people that would probably be reached, deciding presumably that the latter was the more weighty consideration. (Or some such balancing process, anyway.)
The more-radical-than-thou criticism is probably too one-dimensional to take us much further forward, other than to 'separate the pure from the practical'.
Walter
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