> --- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
>>Ravi says:
>>
>>>the acts of a
>>>white lynch mob going after a black man in the deep
>>>south is
>>>significantly different from an opressed afghani
>>>mob going after
>>>an innocent white man.
>>>
>>Had Robert Fisk been a black man in the South
>>assaulted by a white
>>lynch mob, he would not have likely lived to write
>>an article, as
>
> This list gets sicker as time goes on.
> If Robert Fisk had been killed, Yoshie et al would be
> cheering the action as a blow to Western imperialism.
>
this is unfair and ad hominem. where in the writing that you quote above (or in other writings by me) do you see the reasons to arrive at your conclusion above? (i did not read anything in the writing of yoshie either that justifies your conclusion, for that matter). in fact, i greatly respect brad's opinion: [as a newbie and non-expert] i find him one of the few folks whose posts are intelligent without being unreadable. on this particular thread i differ from his opinion and expressed the reasons for my disagreement.
the only point i see that is being made, counter to brad's original message, is that it would be sad if anyone died, but brad's analogizing the afghani mob that attacked fisk to racist attackers elsewhere seems flawed.
--ravi