Joseph seems most interested in maintainng a position in the bleachers
And I'm particularly interested maintaining that position during weeks like this one, when my bleachers aren't being bombed!
> from
> which he can make abstract moral (sneering at the alleged 'aristocracy of
> labor') and/or intellectual judgments of the hurly-burly below.
But I'll confess, I sometimes dream of banishing my fears, shedding my inhibitions, and mixing it up with grumpy retired English professors and the assorted other hurly-burly.
("[H]urly-burly"? I must not make ageist jokes ... I must not make ageist jokes ...)
> In most areas the same people are (a) trying to build for solidarity with
> the Palestinians and (b) building demos demanding justice for Trayvon. Do
> you want intellectual consistency or a movement for a Free Palestine. I'm
> afraid you can't have both.
>
If you'd bother reading other peoples posts, you'd understand why *I* can with no problems. And, more broadly, *anyone* can with a little creative friction.
Your understanding of issue politics is rather infantile. People who disagree about X do, in fact, work together on Y *all the time.* And on the issue of Palestine, where political Islam and the secular left meet, there's considerably more room for constructive tension than a single murder in the State of Florida.
Of course, if you had ever been meaningfully involved in the struggle, you would know this already.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."