"Hate America" Left

[Angelita Manzano]

did you read the whole thing?  
--- Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Angelita Manzano wrote:
> 
> > I know exactly what Alterman is talking about.
> Here's
> > an example of that attitude:
> > http://www.feminista.com/v4n6/craft.html
> >
> > I hear this elitist, obnoxious, disdainful
> attitude
> > mostly in conversations.  Most people don't put it
> in
> > writing, as Nikki Craft does.
> > -Angie
> 
> I took a look at this.  Here's a snip:
> 
> >>The posts I'm making on lists and to individuals
> are not
> >>meant to obtain sympathy for the US. I don't think
> what
> >>happened in Washington/New York is any more tragic
> than
> >>what has been going on in Iraq where, according to
> UN
> >>figures, 5,000 children are dying per week due to
> the
> >>U.S. destroying their infrastructure and the
> economic terrorism
> >>that's been going on there for many years.
> 
> So let me get this straight: it's elitist and
> obnoxious for
> people to be concerned about the death of innocent
> children
> in other nations?  If you point out the horror and
> misery
> provoked around the world by U. S. foreign policy
> adventures you "hate" America?
> 
> I feel like I'm in a Twilight Zone episode.  Have
> people lost
> all capacity for rational thought?
> 
> Miles
> 

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". . (A)ctivists must begin by rallying support for what they favor, not simply emphasizing what they're against. In these times, war is a failure of imagination -- and so is the traditional peace protest. Folks need to hear the better alternative. . . .There's no reason a vision of a world of greater peace and economic justice cannot be wed to what makes strategic sense. We should, in fact, demand it."  Geov Parrish,

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