[lbo-talk] you can take the Confederate flag pin off the man, but...

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Tue Aug 15 08:56:52 PDT 2006


Doug quoted:

a "bunch of Hollywood movie moguls," Allen said, "Let's give a welcome to macaca, here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia." Allen then began talking about the "war on terror."

[WS:] That is rather tame vis a vis the nativist stuff described in the series of articles "White Heat" in the last issue of The Nation. What transpires from The Nation series is that this is mainly "on popular demand" - even ex hippies fall for this. Politicos and moral entrepreneurs merely exploit that popular demand for their own political or pecuniary profit.

Wojtek



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