On May 18, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> info at pulpculture.org wrote:
>
>> Thanks. I was pretty sure that he'd finally acknowledged -- in
>> spite of the disingenuous press release when the controversy hit
>> the fan -- that he really did mean that everyone including
>> janitors are culpable in one way or another. He lays it out in the
>> second piece and in a footnote says that, yes, he too should would
>> have been just as guilty as anyone else on one of the planes and,
>> thus, deserving of the same fate as those on the plane.
>>
>> He engages in the kind of thinking Doug has criticizes here: the
>> all or nothing, you're the oppressed or you're an oppressor
>> thinking. I have been criticizing that at the blog on a number of
>> levels, which Carrol called a 'pissing match' and which I've been
>> calling the "more oppresseder than thou" sweepstakes, arguing that
>> it emanates from a (naive) standpoint epistemology.
>
> I cited someone's critique of Churchill here once (can't remember
> who and I'm too lazy to track it down now) - his analysis is almost
> entirely at the level of nations, not classes or castes or other
> groups. So, Americans oppressed Indians, and Americans support
> Israelis who oppress Palestinians. It's a pretty short distance
> from that to collective guilt.
>
> Doug
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