--- Brad DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu> wrote: > >>
> >>If there's nothing to celebrate, how can a celebration be understandable?
> >
> >The U.S. has killed people for decades at almost no risk to itself.
> >It's supported the most murderous, repressive regimes imaginable.
> >Can't you imagine how some of its victims could feel a little
> >Schadenfreude?
> >
> >Doug
>
> No. I genuinely don't understand how anyone can think that killing a
> secretary working on the 80th floor of the World Trade Center hurts
> some organism called "the U.S." that, say, assisted Pinochet...
>
>
Oh come on of course you do. Dehumanising the enemy is a very early stage in the crowd psychology of peoples at war, and a stage which the Palestinians passed a long time ago. You certainly do understand this. What you're saying is that the actions of those Palestinians who celebrated were in poor taste. Which is true, but it kind of throws things into relief when you put it that way.
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> Brad DeLong
===== ... in countries which do not enjoy Mediterranean sunshine idleness is more difficult, and a great public propaganda will be required to inaugurate it. -- Bertrand Russell
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