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

[Jesse Lemisch]

Gee, Doug, I agree with you that Yoshie's "just one speech" is, as you say,
"crap." But I wonder about your earlier condemnation of my use of the term
"gibberish" in regard to somebody else's post on another topic. I mean,
which is worse -- "crap," or "gibberish"?

Yrs for free and blunt expression,

Jesse Lemisch

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Countering the Politics of Fear (was Tariq Ali at
UCLAtoday)


>
> On Oct 29, 2006, at 10:15 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > Cultural Revolution-scale upheaval is about to happen in Iran based on
> > just one speech.
>
> If George Bush gave a speech saying "get the liberals out of the
> universities!," a lot of people would be rightly scared. Because when
> a president says something, lots of people are encouraged to do
> things they might not otherwise do. There's no shortage of people in
> the US who'd love a purge of leftists from our universities, and from
> what I've heard - what do I know, I'm not a scholar? - there are a
> lot of people in Iran who'd like to purge their universities too. So
> this "just one speech" business is crap, especially if that speech is
> consistent with lots of other stances, and likely to inflame people
> throughout the society.
>
> Doug
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