Re: Countering the Politics of Fear (was Tariq Ali at UCLA today)
On Oct 29, 2006, at 10:15 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
“[L]ittle different”? I can’t imagine Valentine M. Moghadam putting a sensational title like “Cleansing Iran” to her article or suggesting a Cultural Revolution-scale upheaval is about to happen in Iran based on just one speech. She’s a scholar,* after all — she’d first do research and then make sober evaluation, without sensationalist rhetoric.
You remind me of the time that Saskia Sassen took exception to
something I’d said with: “What you say is fine for a placard or a
bumper sticker, but we academics like to operate at a finer level.” I
wanted to respond with a “fuck you,” but I didn’t.
Doug