[lbo-talk] Todd Gitlin: the most pompous ass ever?

[Dissenting Wren]

How low can this tool go?  He's flogging a book subtitled "how peer pressure can 
transform the world" and praising "the nonviolent Optor movement that overthrew 
Slobodan Milosevic in 2000" (conveniently forgetting the Optor succeeded due to 
its timely alliance with the Serbian mafia).  PLP, RYM 1, RYM 2 - I don't think 
any of the so-called "crazies" in SDS have degenerated as far as this "SDS 
moderate" asstrombone.

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From: Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com>
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Subject: [lbo-talk] Todd Gitlin: the most pompous ass ever?

"[I]t now looks as though—fingers crossed—a critical mass of Palestinians
may, at last, be getting the point. When they blow people up, they
manufacture panic and hatred, and lock themselves up. They forfeit the
initiative. When they act en masse with what Gandhi called satyagraha, soul
force, they seize the initiative. If the Palestinian national movement had
begun with disciplined nonviolence, it would have achieved statehood by now.
That said, much better late than never."

http://972mag.com/can-nonviolence-move-the-next-century

Anyone failing to understand why this dripping racist condescension is
entirely baseless might consider reading Mazin Qumsiyeh's Popular Resistance
in Palestine. But in the meantime, or in lieu of that, please avoid any
attempts to feign expertise on the topic.

-- 
"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
lytlað."
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