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Adding more Salt to the wounds of Gen Y : Comments
By Fiona Heinrichs, published 3/8/2011Debating the past and the future with Bernard Salt.
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>>Pericles you suppose Mr Salt's disinterest in academic detail as an excuse for his silence in the face of Fiona's request for debate.<<
I do not suppose Mr Salt's disinterest. (Or to avoid ambiguity, lack of interest, which is the meaning I suspect you intended). That is for him to sort out. The observation on Ms Heinrich's contribution to the debate was mine alone. And again for the sake of clarity, how do we know that any such request was made in the message? Typically, the article leaves out key information points, a habit quite common to Ms Heinrich's writings.
The suppositions are all yours. The supposition that a request was made, in an appropriate fashion, in the first place. The supposition that the message was actually received. The supposition that a reply is not, in fact on Mr Salt's to-do list. None of this is made clear.
>>It also seems odd that yourself and the opening commentator both see Fiona's article as hostile.<<
And it appears that you equally suppose that there was no intent in the article to heap scorn or opprobrium ? Wow. You are unable to detect the sarcasm ("apparently this does not apply to himself"), or the faux-surprise ("I would have thought that...") that decorate the article at every turn?
>>Do you think she should be more circumspect, or perhaps even dutifully respectful...<<
Not necessarily. She is free to choose her method of communication, as we all are. It does occur to me that there may be better ways to engage than a single random message, that may or may not have contained a request for a debate, in language that may or may not have been clear and unambiguous, and in a manner that may or may not have been courteous.
Given the lady's preferred method of communication with us, which I personally would categorize as a sketchy, randomly constructed mini-lecture, it would be interesting to see how, exactly, that message was phrased.
We may never know.