[miss marmelstein]

It’s not worth it. They want to believe what they want to believe. But I very much liked your posts and very much appreciate you taking the time to write them.

[Tax-chick]

It's a very sad mindset, to want people to have done dreadful things, because you hate their religion or something else about them. Surely we want evil to NOT happen, regardless of who would have done it. In this case, there's no getting around tragedy - the babies died - but it's one thing if they died from effects of poverty, in spite of someone's best efforts, and something else if (as is implied) they were killed by the deliberate malice or indifference of the Bon Secours sisters.

I suppose it's something to watch out for in oneself. When I read a poorly-sourced story about some atrocity, do I want it to be true, because it "proves" what I already believe about Those People?

I recall some of the stories that came out after Hurricane Katrina, which were later revealed to be journalistic fictions. Were they believable because we "know" that's what the black urban underclass is like?