Re: Countering the Politics of Fear (was Tariq Ali at UCLA today)
On Oct 28, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Are these Western leftists?
Yes. They live in the West and are unlikely to go back to Iran and live there permanently.
Because they can’t think, write, or live freely. They’d be at risk of
being arrested or killed. Doesn’t it give you pause that the kinds of
Iranians - people who no doubt have family and friends in Iran - who
identify with MR find your position offensive?
She’s lived in the West for a long time as well, longer than I have been, for all I know. Nothing in the article below is over the top, though, nor anything else by her I have read. If her work seems very persuasive to you, perhaps you might tone down your rhetoric to her level.
Thank you very much for the rhetorical advice, which I’m going to
ignore.
Doug