Joanna
----- Original Message ----- There's dispassionately writing about historical events and then there's exhorting others to a war you don't have any stake in. The latter is the reason we called the neocons chickenhawks back in 2003. I haven't seen Graeber's tweets so I take no position on which he's doing, but yes, intellectuals who call for others to make sacrifices they themselves aren't willing to make are not respectable. You can analyze and comment and take positions all you want, but don't beat war drums from 1000 miles behind the front.
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:27 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Sorry but this is fucked up.
>
> Is it bad faith for intellectuals to write about historical events without
> taking up a gun?
>
> Did all of us who wrote about Israel/Palestine go to Palestine to fight?
> Were we publicly shamed because we didn't go to Palestine?
>
> Joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> There's a kickstarter fund
> <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2053370738/1289952833?token=06b069a6
> >
> to send him there.
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > On Twitter, Graeber weirdly sounded as if he were endorsing some sort of
> > US intervention, though he was slippery on the details.
> >
> > The invocation of Spain was interesting. If we followed that model, David
> > should be picking up an AK-47 and heading off to join the Kurdish
> > anarchists.
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