Civil Rights & Liberties or "White Privileges"? Re: Green Party official busted at gunpoint

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Sun Nov 4 12:08:33 PST 2001



>>Why is it wrong to be or act "surprised" when you lose pieces of your
>>civil rights & liberties?
>
>I think it's the implication that you haven't been observing what
>has been happening to the people around you, or that you didn't
>expect that what happens to them would happen to you.

Well, the same can be said about many Americans' responses to the S11 bombings: surprise, grief, shock, outrage, etc. Perhaps you may say it is "naive" to be surprised that "what happens to them would happen to you," but still it doesn't seem to me that you can equate being naive with being wrong. Besides, leftists can gain no political mileage by saying that "you should have seen it coming" in either the Oden case or the S11 bombings case, so why bother?

It's entirely another thing if Oden or the Green Party is known *not* to have given a damn about racial profiling, police brutality, & infringements of civil rights & liberties in general., but such is not the case here, right? -- Yoshie

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