[lbo-talk] "Islamofascism Awareness Week" (was Marjane Satrapi: Revolutionary Spirit)

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Tue Oct 23 09:26:48 PDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 12:01 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Oh please. That's ridiculous. You think queer-friendly socialism
> would be welcome on FR or LGF?

Doug, nobody is claiming that. My post on this subject was probably too long, and nobody read past the lede (just as I usually don't). My bad, as they say. Here's what Andie wrote:


> So, I take, Yoshie, that your answer is that instead
> of imposing bourgeois wealth and liberties on the
> unwilling masses in typical imperialist fashion,
> we can let the clerics impose Sharia law, stuff the
> women into chadors, authorize honor killings of raped
> women who disgrace their male relatives, beat
> clean-shaven men, hang the queers and stone the
> adulterers, and build a bomb.

Yoshie's response:


> > If you posted what you wrote to
> > www.freerepublic.com or
> > www.littlegreenfootballs.com, it wouldn't be out of
> > place there.

This is a defensible view, and a perfectly legitimate polemical gambit. There's no question of "slurs" or "insults" here. All this Foghorn Leghorn "Suh, you have impugned mah honah, Suh!" stuff is just silly.

And now I believe I am over my limit.



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