Those who denied or defended the Stalinist purge trials _even after_ they became aware of the well-documented facts were wrong. But in this case, we just heard one story from one corporate media source. No similarity between the two.
> There's no official policy
> at Duke or in the South that encourages or condones
> white athletes to rape black women (there was
> unofficially a generation or two ago, but times have
> changed), but there has been a longstanding official
> Maoist/Stalinist tradition of homophobia,
The South, school policy toward athletes, etc. have changed, but Maoists haven't? Now that may be true, but why assume it to be true, before checking the facts?
> (d) in terms
> false impressions the fact that the Nepalese rebels
> are Maoist is enough to condemn them in the eyes of
> most of the world (and I'm pretty suspicious myself);
All the more reasons to guard against one's own prejudice, no?
On 1/7/07, Brian Charles Dauth <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > At this point, obtaining more information is the most
> important thing to do.
>
> I think it is one of two "most important things" to do.
>
> The other is to be clear and consistent about the fact that
> queer oppression and progressive/communist/anarchist/
> socialist values/agitation are absolutely and utterly
> incompatible, and that failures in the area of sexual rights/
> liberation are not mitigated by success in other areas.
Yes. Those who really care about GLBT individuals in Nepal have more reasons than others to try to obtain accurate information about what's happening. Those who don't, well, the facts don't matter to them, do they? -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>