[lbo-talk] Countering the Politics of Fear (was Tariq Ali at UCLA today)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Oct 29 19:37:26 PST 2006


On Oct 29, 2006, at 10:15 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> "[L]ittle different"? I can't imagine Valentine M. Moghadam putting a
> sensational title like "Cleansing Iran" to her article or suggesting a
> Cultural Revolution-scale upheaval is about to happen in Iran based on
> just one speech. She's a scholar,* after all -- she'd first do
> research and then make sober evaluation, without sensationalist
> rhetoric.

You remind me of the time that Saskia Sassen took exception to something I'd said with: "What you say is fine for a placard or a bumper sticker, but we academics like to operate at a finer level." I wanted to respond with a "fuck you," but I didn't.

Doug



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