[lbo-talk] chavez, bush, the devil and jon stewart

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Sep 25 08:02:44 PDT 2006


Leftists should avoid using rightist slander terms. "Legitimate critic" is shorthand for "someone who supports imperialism, bombing Iran, and torture, but thinks the Administration isn't clever enough in itsimplementation of these policies." Someone who invokes "legitimate critics" as a standard is _either_ rather naive or him/herself rather soft on these issues. "Devil" will of course reverberate beautifully throughout the oppressed and exploited peoples of the world, and negative reactions to Chavez using it have at least a whiff of "The White Man's Burden" -- i.e., the assumption that truth & justice depend in the long run on the good will of the white imperialists.

Carrol



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