[lbo-talk] Re: Islamophobia

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 11/30/06, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> Yoshie:
>
> It's clear that Doug prefers -- and he thinks we should all prefer --
> the left wing of the American power elite to the Iranian leaders,
> Hizballah leaders, Hamas leaders, and the like:
>
> [WS:] And what exactly is wrong with having an opinion, political or
> otherwise, that favors or disfavors certain groups of people or their
> beliefs, values and lifestyles over others?  Are we supposed to abstain from
> any judgment, which is tantamount to having no opinion at all?  Or hold only
> those opinions that meet the approval of a thought authority of one sort or
> another?

In this case, orthodoxy belongs to Doug & Co., and my opinion, a
heretical one on the English-speaking Left, does not meet the approval
of dogmatic secular liberals.  No matter, I have pretty good company
among Latin socialists, from Fidel to Chavez.  :->
-- 
Yoshie
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