oversimplification

It’s an oversimplification to say that the bill caused modern mass incarceration, a trend that was already well underway in the United States by the mid-’90s, and there’s some disagreement as to how much impact the bill even had on those shifts.

My cynical oversimplification of the story of Los Angeles goes like this: lots of people saw how beautiful Southern California was and wanted not just to live there but to possess it.

That is, admittedly and intentionally, a gross oversimplification — for Kelly had a deeply flawed tenure in Westwood and Foster brings significant potential to the role.

But to focus only on that would be an oversimplification.

Then again, that was the sort of passing-of-the-torch oversimplification some folks found in Djokovic’s loss to another kid, Carlos Alcaraz, in last year’s Wimbledon final.