Cockburn's Cookie

[Patrick Bond]

> From:          "Dennis" <dperrin13 at mediaone.net>
> Date:          Tue, 10 Apr 2001 20:16:49 -0400
> No "linguisitc prudery" here (just ask Rakesh, who termed me "vulgar" the
> other day). I was just surprised that Cockburn used "Chinamen," and simply
> urged him on to greater heights (or depths). Indeed, slurs and slanders can
> yield fine results if used properly and "ironically." But here it seemed
> lazy.

Cocky was on South African national radio this AM, for his weekly 
Letter from America, and talked lots about Chinese suffering and 
resistance under Brit colonialism/imperialism, and was brilliant and 
PC all at once.