[lbo-talk] LBO-Talk = Outliers (What Do The Iraqi Resistance Debates And The Mars Rovers Debates Have In Common?)

[dredmond at efn.org]

Quoting Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>:


> (I note that there are three persons of 
> color in [B], whereas [A] are all white 

Really? You have documentary proof of our ethnic identities? Too bad your 
amazing powers of observation don't extend to reading people's posts.

I'm a white male and I wrote, some time ago, that I'd personally prefer to see 
nonviolent civic resistance, but that ordinary Iraqis have as much right to 
pick up a gun to resist an evil and illegal invasion as the farmers of 
Lexington did in 1775. But I also refuse, then as now, to glorify violence or 
to consider war as anything other than what it is: something unspeakably 
monstrous, an absolute last resort. I'd be happy to support the Iraqi 
equivalent of the NLF and Ho Chi Minh, but I've seen no credible evidence of 
such a movement.

-- DRR