[lbo-talk] poverty draft

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At 11:14 AM 12/19/2005, J. Tyler wrote:
>Since when did there become no victims in this world?  Most people are 
>indeed victims, of environments, conditions, and circumstances 
>intentionally created and maintained by more powerful people, past and 
>present.  If there are no victims, then there are no oppressors or 
>perpetrators.  And if there are no oppressors or perpetrators, I have no 
>need to be politically (and certainly not class) conscious and might as 
>well spend my time watching Nanny 911 since all is well and right in the 
>world, with the exception of those bratty kids.
>
>I have no qualms about saying I stand up for victims as against our 
>victimizers.  What is gained by denying that people are injured by the 
>actions of others in real and measurable ways?  Whose agenda does that advance?

It's what I call the self-hating left at work.

"Scream-of-consciousness prose, peppered with
sociological observations, political ruminations, and
in-yore-face colloquial assaults."

-- Dennis Perrin, redstateson.blogspot.com

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