Burchill goes ballistic ...

[s-t-t at juno.com]

Grant Lee wrote:
> As a naive and impressionable kiddie in my early 20s, I was a big
> fan of Julie Burchill. That is before, 1989 or thereabouts, when she
> renounced her own peculiar brand of Marxism-Leninism. That said,
> I was always uneasy about the strong undercurrents of racism,
> especially against Arabs (which flowed naturally from her fetishisation
> of Jews), her (now ironic) homophobia, her obsessive anti-
> Americanism, to name but a few of her pathologies.

And advocacy of the death penalty.  When I was in London last March, she
had a piece in the Guardian on how supporting state executions is
actually a form of solidarity with the working class.

-- Shane

P.S.  kelley was seeking reading suggestions, and I've got another: A
Handbook On Hanging.  It's a sardonic indictment of capital punishment
and well worth the read.

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