Mike Frank says:
 
i think that some of us, for temperamental
>and/or ideological reasons, care mainly about the range of issues where
>generalizations do work, while others care more about the complementary range
>where cultural specifics take over
 
I don't understand this talk of "ranges."  What is "the range where
generalizations do work"?  The range of Marxists?  Of Capitalists?  Of all
those somewhere inbetween?  Is it the range that a billion Chinese citizens
occupy?  Or is it the range where women (half the population of the earth)
occupy?  Perhaps its the range occupied by gay paraplegic Native-American
men.  Or is it the range occupied by film academics?
 
I challenge anybody to name just one "range" in which discourse is not
based on both "generalizations" and "cultural specifics."
 
Jerry
 
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