re: #808 Dark_Falcon

This came out in the New York Times on Friday. I didn’t know that Frances Fox Piven was still alive. She is, though, and some of Glenn Beck’s followers are making threats:

Spotlight From Glenn Beck Brings a CUNY Professor Threats

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I despise Piven’s politics, but I despise political violence even more. Fox News needs to require Glenn Beck to devote at least 10 minutes of one of his shows to explaining why violence and death threats are wrong and unacceptable. Because otherwise someone’s going to get hurt or killed.

Beck’s rants are such a snarled bunch of half-truths, untruths, flat-out lies, inversions, distortions, logical fallacies, and just plain idiocy that any attempt at doing what you advocate, even if sincere, will be misinterpreted. Ms. Piven’s future would be served best if Beck never mentions her again.

There’s some irony here. Had Ms. Piven passed on before Beck started mentioning her, there would have been little attention paid outside of liberal academic circles perhaps. If anything happens to her now, it will be a cause celebre even if it’s natural causes (she is 78, after all).

In the meantime, so long as it upsets Glenn Beck so much, I hope that Ms. Piven lives an even longer and happy, healthy life.