[lbo-talk] Re: democracy?

Michael Dawson -PSU mdawson at pdx.edu
Mon Oct 20 14:33:13 PDT 2003



> what treanor seems to be talking about in his critique of democracy is
> what passes for democracy, but isn't....
>
> not exactly the same thing, but akin to the trashing of
> socialism-communism based on what many would say were not truly
> socialist or communist systems...
>
> fs
>

This is wrong, actually. Why are you trying to help this wacko? He attacks democracy itself. Read the words.

BTW, he also attacks freedom of speech and journalism (see below).

He thinks two wrongs make a right, that his recognition of one wrong (e.g., poverty) gives him the right to perpetrate another; he's either insane or playing a _very_ corrupt game on his audience.

More Treanor:

"It is time to punish journalists, for creating a climate of racism and hostility toward migration. A journalist is not some sort of sacred being, deserving special protection. There is no 'freedom of racism', and there is no journalistic freedom to be racist. The criteria for punishment can be simple: migration of poor people to rich countries is not wrong, and any journalist who campaigns against it should be punished. The penalties should be at least sufficient to reverse the effects. Any newspaper, for instance, which refers to immigrants as 'human sewage' should be closed - completely, permanently, and without compensation. Of course suppression of media hostility to migration is not, in itself, a solution to the problem of global inequality. However, it does seem to be one of the necessary first steps to a solution. "



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