[lbo-talk] Eminem

[DSR]

Doug asked
> > Why are people bringing up fascism here? Is it that any
> suggestion of mass 
> > uprising sounds like a Nuremburg rally? Is mob rule impolite? I'm
> a little 
> > confused.

and Steven Gotzler <Steve at gotzler.org> wrote:


> There is a similar quality to the video that reminds me of Triumph
> of the 
> Will.  And while the lyrics do call on people to rise up and vote,
> they also 
> ask people to let the singer lead them.

 
Fyi, the director of the video, Ian Inaba, is with Guerilla News
Network (http://www.gnn.tv/content/eminem_mosh.html).

I saw the "fascist" elements of the video as a deliberate mirror
image indictment of those it is protesting against.  More in line
with a GNN perspective, too.

 - Deborah