FW: The anti-imperialism of fools

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Chuck Munson wrote:
>
>>Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>>>
>>>  At 06:28 PM 6/17/2002 -0400, Doug wrote:
>>>
>>>  >Oh yeah? So why are so many of today's activists the offspring of 60s
>>>  >activists?
>>>
>>>  Perhaps because so many 60s activists became respectable members of the
>>>  establishment.
>>
>>We all know that this claim isn't true. Only a few activists sold out.
>
>But that's not the way it seemed in The Big Chill! Better to defend 
>land rapers than real rapists, and all that.
>
>A lot of those activists became public interest lawyers, union 
>organizers, radical preachers, politicized academics, and people 
>with ordinary jobs who make lots of trouble in their spare time. 
>There so much a part of the American political landscape that it's 
>hard to notice them. Evidently Wojtek has overlooked them.
>
>Doug

It seems there are a bunch of politicized academics at Johns Hopkins: 
<http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2001/29oct01/29learn.html>.
-- 
Yoshie

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