[lbo-talk] Juan Cole on Responsibility

[ravi]

At around 20/11/06 6:06 pm, Doug Henwood wrote:
> 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.
>
>> 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.
> 

Yeah! Juan Cole's mama is fat! And Yoshie is a meanie!

	--ravi