[lbo-talk] Indian Beatles

[ravi]

At around 12/6/06 12:37 pm, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> 
> Here's a new one--- cultural colonialism:
> 
> http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/printable/327/
> 
> Tuesday 30 May 2006
> Brad, Angelina and the rise of 'celebrity colonialism'
> What gives two Hollywood actors the right to shut down an African nation
> so that they can have a special experience?
> Brendan O'Neill
> 
> Over the past six weeks a Western security force has effectively taken
> over the small African nation of Namibia. A beach resort in Langstrand
> in Western Namibia has been sealed off with security cordons, and armed
> security personnel have been keeping both local residents and visiting
> foreigners at bay. A no-fly zone has been enforced over part of the
> country. The Westerners have also demanded that the Namibian government
> severely restrict the movement of journalists into and out of Namibia.
> The government agreed and, in a move described by one human rights
> organisation as 'heavy-handed and brutal', banned certain reporters from
> crossing its borders.
> 

This is a joke right? I mean, I am just not getting it right? Surely
these human rights organisations have, at some time in their existence,
witnessed real "brutality"? Or perhaps the definition of the term has
been narrowed/expanded to apply to any and only those annoyances
perpetuated by white people?

Methinks, if the biggest (or even a big) problem is that a couple of
generally well-intentioned celebrities are acting in a high-handed and
brattish way, I think we can declare victory, fold up the left, and head
back to WalMart.

	--ravi

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