Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Yeah, some of them might be brainless murderers. But a lot of them
> are complicated people who find themselves in Iraq because of forces
> a lot larger than themselves. Why not blame their civilian bosses
> instead?
I agree completely with this. But the same thing goes for SUV drivers, homeowners, suburbanites, Bush voters, fundamentalists & evangelicals, chain-restaurant customers, football fans, Oprah's audience, assistant professors, 204Bs, Red Lobster managers, copywriters, construction workers . . . . .
We can't begin to understand the workings of capitalist ideology and its grounds in daily life if we continue to blame the victims of it.
As I wrote at 19 Oct 2006 08:41:33:
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> These attacks on people, on their tastes, their living quarters, their
> restaurants, their transportation, are just another version, and a
> contemptible one, of blame the victim.
Carrol