[lbo-talk] A PR disaster: Five views on Pussy Riot's war

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Thu Aug 23 11:00:36 PDT 2012



>What a load of crap. This is the best analysis you've read so far? Should people go to jail for insulting the beliefs of others?
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>Doug
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The guy who wrote that is in Berkeley, where today there must be a shortage of crap as well as straw after he put so much of both in that piece:


>The dominant narrative is that it is Putin who is behind the persecution of Pussy Riot. But here, one must note that in his only comments on the issue, Putin recommended leniency for >the trio. Beyond that, it is simply very difficult to credit the notion that Putin lies awake at night, worrying about a proletarian revolt incited by feminists with bags over their >heads and aging single-name pop celebrities. One would think there are thousands of other, more pertinent issues on his priorities list: the chaos in the eurozone, the civil war in >Syria, etc.



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