When Moore peppers his footage with ethnic/racist stereotypes about Arabs and Arab power and Arab tribalism and manipulation by Arabs of the U.S. economy and foreign policy...
It is the same type of objectionable bigoted conspiracist stereotyping as when...
"xymphora" peppers his/her post with ethnic/racist stereotypes about Jews and Jewish power and Jewish tribalism and manipulation by Jews and Israelis of the U.S. economy and foreign policy...
Conspiracist stereotyping - BAD Principled criticism - GOOD
Dreyfuss has the difference figured out...
And you?
Chip "at least I'm consistent" Berlet
P.S. Anti-SPAM statement: On balance, with a few criticisms, I was please by Moore's documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, and hope a zillion people go see it and talk about it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Wanzala [mailto:jwanzala at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 5:09 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Re: Blind, or a coward / antisemitism?
>
>
> Moore's documentary is peppered with historic footage about
> Saudi-Bush
> 'tribal loyalties' and Arab financial power (that they have
> untold billions
> invested in the US, that Prince Bandar has secret service
> protection etc.)
> and Arab manipulation of US state security (e.g. the Bin
> Laden airlift) all
> stirred together into a toxic stew of bigotry.
>
> That *you* cannot tell the difference between pricipled critique and
> antisemitic conspiracy theory is very troubling, but not surprising.
>
> Joe W.
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