US Imperialism Re: Chomsky News Network

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: <kelley at pulpculture.org>
>
>>   How much of this patriotic deep throating does Noam
>>have to do before he's considered a good American?
>>
>>Miles
>
>-just to turn the tables: isn't that precisely what goes on here if anyone
>-says anything in defense of US culture? isn't it the case that you have to
>-suck the cock and both balls of your fellow lefties and prove you're a real
>-lefty first, and even then, no matter what you've typed or said or written
>-in the past, the act of saying it voids everything you've otherwise said?
>-why promulgate a process built on the same dynamics as patriotism?
>
>I usually avoid one-line amens, but
>
>Amen, Kelley.
>
>-- Nathan

The bone of contention is US imperialism, not the polymorphous 
perverse "US culture in general" (if one can define such a thing at 
all).

It's not as though one would perforce oppose noh, sushi, haiku, 
nihongo, etc. if one opposed Japanese imperialism.  The same goes for 
US imperialism.
-- 
Yoshie

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