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[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Liza Featherstone wrote:
>
>>Why NOT point out where the left agrees with the majority, whenever possible
>>- it makes our minority positions less alien and more persuasive.
>
>I don't doubt that people are driven away from the left because of 
>the inability of so many of us to say that it's barbaric to blow up 
>cafes or drive airplanes into buildings. It takes a special kind of 
>rigid moralism and self-censorship, and a ruthless ability to 
>repress normal human sympathy to qualify.
>
>Doug

Do you actually have evidence that many leftists have refused to 
condemn 9.11 terrors?  That's not the impression that I get from 
listening to Robert Fisk ("a crime against humanity that is so 
awesome in scale and death," 
<http://www.progressive.org/0901/intv1201.html>), Noam Chomsky ("a 
particularly horrifying terrorist crime," 
<http://www.monthlyreview.org/1101chomsky.htm>), and other writers 
and activists on the left.  The only "leftist" who fits your 
description that I can think of is Ward Churchill, but why slander 
"so many of us" for one man's thought crime?
-- 
Yoshie

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