----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran
>
> On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Michael Smith<mjs at smithbowen.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> These are hard questions to answer, and some of them I think are
>>> silly --
>>> what kind of movement would I *like* to see in Iran? Who cares what I
>>> (or any of us) would like or wouldn't?
>>
>> You are not telling the truth. You do care. When you label a blog post
>> relating the news that A. won "My man!" and enthuse because he is
>> sticking it to "Tehran hipsters and the professional and mangerial
>> classes" you are endorsing a kind of movement in Iran. At least be
>> honest about it.
>
> Yikes, I hadn't seen that
> <http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/2009/06/my_man.html