Put an End to "Anti-Americanism" Re: Michael Hardt

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Quoting Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>:
>
>>  According to your argument (such as it is), pretty soon, we will have
>>  no term for any complex phenomenon, like capitalism.  In any case, it
>>  explains nothing about Hardt's preference for the empty term
>>  "Anti-Americanism."
>
>Exactly how is anti-americanism an empty term? Surely (like anti-intellectual)
>it involves using America as a blanket condemnation without needing to pose a
>relevant argument to explain what it means or how it might be at fault?
>
>Catherine

Who in the global waves of protests against the war on Iraq -- the 
subject of Hardt's article -- was actually being "Anti-American" in 
the sense of condemning "America" -- the entire country -- in a 
blanket fashion without explaining "what it means or how it might be 
at fault"?  Peoples in the world -- including Americans -- were 
protesting _the USG_ -- rather than all Americans -- for planning an 
illegal and immoral preventive war and/or their own national 
government for joining the USG in the planning.  The aim of the 
protests couldn't have been clearer.  By calling them "Anti-American" 
demagogically, Hardt is engaging in libel and slander.
-- 
Yoshie

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