[lbo-talk] A question for the anti-"conspiracy"-theorists about 9/11

[Chuck]

ravi wrote:
> 
> Funny to see a bunch of [what I suspect are] white guys
> re-characterizing a simple question from a brown guy as driven by
> anti-brown-skin racism (though I guess the device of "self-hating X" can
> be borrowed from the right). Funnily enough, they are probably correct
> in their analysis (when applied reflectively) that we tend to see what
> we want to see.

Ravi,

My point about the racism involved in 9/11 conspiracy theories has 
nothing to do with you. I've been pointing the racism connection to 
friends for the past five years. I picked up on this years ago in 
conjunction with criticism of the UFO movement. It caught my attention 
because I was really into UFOs and science fiction as a teenager. I even 
saw one of those films released back in 1977 which argued that the 
pryamids in Egypt, the Nazca lines in Peru, and many other ancient 
structures were the work of aliens.

Chuck