[lbo-talk] Bush down to 33%; public loves posturing xenophobic congress

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Mar 15 18:58:03 PST 2006


Nathan Newman wrote:


>Why is this xenophobia? You get the same opposition in most cases if a
>hometown owner is replaced by a New York corporate owner. "Foreign"
>ownership, whether foreign to a city or state or nation, implies loss of
>control and less loyalty to the broader interests of local citizens.
>
>Dubai is a caricature of capitalism-- an oil company masking as a country
>run by a plutocratic clan which engages in rape of employees imported to do
>the elite's dirty work to the extent that Human Rights Watch has highlighted
>this repeatedly in reports.
>
>You may claim that Robert Mendendez, the first latino Senator from New
>Jersey, whose old Congressional district is heavily muslim, is just a
>racist at heart and that all his stated reasons for opposing the deal reduce
>to simple xenophobe, but a bit more evidence would be nice.

It was all about demonizing Arabs as untrustworthy terrorists. It was revolting. And why would Latinos be exempt from this? They're Americans too.

Doug



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