[lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Ahmadinejad & Bollinger

Eubulides prince.plumples at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 20:50:13 PDT 2007


On 10/11/07, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:


> Pathetic. I hate this moral-equivalence stuff -- it's
> so liberal, so above-it-all.
>
> The fact is, that to any unbiased mind, Bollinger
> would have been seen to be to be a shrill, vulgar,
> underbred, bullying, sloganeering fool, and
> Ahmadinejad -- if only by comparison -- a
> reasonable, thoughtful, perhaps mistaken
> human being.
>
> Maybe Yoshie's whole mission on this list can
> be summed up as: "Bollinger vs Ahmadinejad -- take
> your pick. No, don't evade. You have to choose.
> This is actually existing reality, with a genuine
> social basis, not some contrivance of legislation
> or institutional bylaws. You really have to take
> your pick."
>
> I know what mine would be. I'm not crazy about
> Ahmadinejad, but compared to Bollinger and that ilk,
> he seems like an angel of light.

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Gee, where have I heard this binary before?

Oh yeah, that's right:

"Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."

<http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010920-8.html>

So-called morality has nothing to do with it.....



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