> Pathetic. I hate this moral-equivalence stuff -- it's
> so liberal, so above-it-all.
>
[...]
> 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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Micheal Smith may view Dabashi's al Ahram article as "pathetic, so liberal,
so above-it-all", in contrast to his own brave and morally unequivocal
defence of Ahmadinejad on the LBO list, but I also admired this Iranian
scholar's brutal dressing down of his employer, alone of Columbia's cowed
faculty, laced though it was with criticism of the clerical regime from an
anti-imperialist perspective.