"I hate America, Louis. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on Earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, Louis, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something."
It's a great passage, but CUNY is in the US, isn't it? So it's all right for an American playwright to take a mighty shit on God's country, but criticize a foreign nation and you can kiss your honorary degree goodbye? Strange.
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> [WS:} He died not say that, he said 'Jewish state' which is more
> factually accurate than,say. calling the US "th eland of the free."
>
> As to " My guess is that compromising American voices like Kushner's
> which both criticize and support Israel are actually the most
> threatening to bullies"
>
> [WS:} The role of the inquisition is to fight 'enemies within' -
> rather than the declared and thus obvious enemies. Without 'enemies
> within' the inquisition would lose its raison d'etre. Ask Lou Proyect
> about that :)
>
> Wojtek
>
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:38 PM, CallMe Ishmael
> <llamadmeismael7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > < He is that most reviled thing, a "liberal Zionist".
> >
> > why do these types always insist on saying "the state of Israel"
> > rather than just "Israel"?
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