On Nov 20, 2006, at 5:58 PM, mike larkin wrote:
> I'd say that America is more a liberal plutocracy than a liberal
> democracy, but, still, it's not a dictatorship, so we had better
> assume our shares of responsibility. Our refusal to assume them only
> contribute to the "it's not our fault" meme, which goes hand in hand
> with the racist "it's the Iraqis' fault" meme, dominant in American
> culture.
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> Yoshie
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> He's wrong and you're wrong. It's not my fault. My hands are clean.
Yoshie's politics have changed a lot in the decade I've known her, but one thing hasn't - she always has to position herself as more militant and/or more righteous than thou, a model for all of us to try (vainly) to emulate. Evidently she doesn't find it exhausting to radiate certainty and paragon-ness 24/7.
Doug