Week 6 Reading Response: Ralli

Tania Ralli’s article about the definition of “looter” is completely new to me. I’ve never heard of it before. The last paragraph in the article where Mr. Graythen posted an email message about the time to argue is not now is right on. The time then was survival mode. The journalists in this article were there and called things as they saw them. It seems that the people that were criticizing this situation weren’t there. I think it’s easy for people to judge. These journalists were there and under a great deal of stress that we can’t imagine unless you live through it as they did. The people that complain about such things, in my opinion, need to find something to do that’s constructive. They must have way too much time on their hands. As long as there are people that like to “stir the pot” this nation will never be truly united. I think it’s sad that Graythen received so much negative email on this caption issue. This article is more about division than it is about definition. It’s pretty pathetic that people will even criticize him for spelling and grammar, given his environment. I looked up the word ethos in the dictionary in order to be able to address the question of the typing and spelling contributing or detracting from his argument and ethos. Ethos means character. How on earth are we supposed to judge his character by typing and spelling errors? In my opinion the only way to judge someone’s character is to get to know them. Having never heard of him before or read anything about this issue I cannot and will not judge his character.